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RE: Aylestone Meadows: September 9 2018
That looks beautiful. Id have been in that river! And a railway reference in there too...you really know how to make a reader happy lol ;-)
Aren't electric pylons a blight though ?
The railway is interesting - the station was in a different place (Great Central Street - would you believe it)! Archeologists recently exposed the remains of the Roman city underneath the site of the old station - it was a huge area of streets and buildings. Very muddy!
I like the pylons 😍
Somewhere there are also cast iron gas containers, but I didn't see them yesterday.
and when you think of great Roman Cities, Leicester isn't a name that immediately trips off the tongue!
Gas clocks I love, totally different class to pylons!
Leicester was on the Fosse Way linking Lincoln and Exeter, by way of Leicester, Bath and Cirencester (not a word about Birmingham - that city is a real johnny-come-lately, didn't get itself together until the middle ages). I think much of the Fosse Way is the A46 now - notably straight.
Of course, I forgot about the Fosse Way...thank you. Today has been an education :-)
A woman was paddling in the river further down, there were beaches on both banks and couple of simple rope and plank swings hanging from a tree over the river. She told me that the water was very cold, but that this had been a special place for her son who had died. She liked to come there and sit on the swing because she felt close to him there.
Aww thats really sad, but everyone needs to get their peace however they can.
They do. I was touched by how important these places are to people. It is a lovely spot, even on a gloomy day.