The one we missed in Leicester ….. from 1926

You may have to kiss a lot of toads before you meet your Prince/Princess Charming, and in the same way as a tourist in Leicester you do come across a shed load of dreary buildings before happening on one you like.

And I like the De Montford Hall which ranks alongside the Guild Hall, the Museum and a heap of delightful old buildings down those twisty turney streets which Leicester still does well.

We never got as far as the Hall, so I have brought out my picture from 1926 from the collection and added the one from Google maps.

Of course, I would never as a tourist presume to write about its history to people who live there.

But I couldn’t resist lifting this from the back of the picture postcard, “De Montford Hall, erected by the Corporation of Leicester in 1913 at a cost of £21,000”.

To which a Mr. Law added to his daughter in Rhyl “Still here but I am going home tomorrow to see Mummy”.

And that is it, other than to thank Tuck DB for giving permission to use the card from their collection and of course Leicester for some handsome places to write about.

Location; Leicester

Picture; De Montford Hall, Leicester, 1926, from Tuck and Sons, courtesy of Tuck DB, https://tuckdbpostcards.org/  and in 2018 courtesy of Google Maps