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Ghost sign for Cashmores Timber on Essex Road, 2013.
No full textGhost sign for Cashmores Timber, reading: 'Cashmores For All Doors, Windows, Timber etc.' and their phone number. A black arrow points to the right down Essex Road. Founded in the 1940s, Cashmores Timber is a family-run, Leicester-based business still in operation today. They specialise in the supply of timber, decking, doors and joinery products
Old and new graffiti in the Queen's building, 2013
No full textSome of the original graffiti of Dielectric remains, alongside what looks like much newer graffiti inside the Queen's Building, 37-43 Rutland Street
Interview with Nils Feldman.
No full text46 minutes 43 seconds interview with Nils Feldman, an architect. The interview includes Nils talking about university and training to be an architect. He then gives a career outline and includes the architectural projects he has been involved with, and working with the Regeneration Company. Nils gives his opinion on the architecture of the Cultural Quarter and Curve Theatre and goes on to talk about the LCB Depot (Leicester Creative Business Depot) and the regeneration of the area. Nils then talks about the cultural and social life around the Phoenix Theatre and Orton Square. Finally Nils talks about the discovery of King Richard III and how it will affect the tourism industry in Leicester
Pradip Popat interviewed by Dipak Joshi, 27 September 2013
No full textDescribes arriving in the UK as a refugee from Uganda and being one of only three Asians at his new school
Sudeep Kaur Bone interviewed by Gurpreet Grewal-Santini, 19 June 2013
No full textRecollections of childhood memories of weekly cinema trips in Uganda, Christmas fancy dress parties and coming to England as a young child
Ghost sign for Jack Daniel's Whiskey on Millstone Lane, 2013.
No full textGhost sign for Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey. The sign depicts the whiskey's iconic black label and reads 'Jack Daniel's / Old No. 7 Brand / Tennessee Whiskey'. Along the sides, the sign reads 'Made in Tennessee' and 'Bottled at the Distillery' and along the bottom of the sign, 'Your friends at Jack Daniel's remind you to drink responsibly'. Between 2013 and 2014, the sign was painted over. Jack Daniel's is an American whiskey brand. Their distillery was founded in 1866 (or 1875 depending on historical record), but Jasper Newton Daniel, the founder, began distilling whiskey in 1864. Jack Daniel's is now one of the largest whiskey producers in the world
Old and new graffiti in the Queen's building, 2013
No full textSome of the original graffiti of Dielectric remains, alongside what looks like much newer graffiti inside the Queen's Building, 37-43 Rutland Street
Interview with an anonymous man born in 1970.
No full text47 minutes and 9 second interview with an anonymous Leicester man aged 42 who recounts his memories of growing up in Leicestershire, working in London as a magazine publishing intern in the 1990s and of the Dielectric club in Leicester. He started going to the club in 1993 and describes the interior of the club building and the different types of music played. He talks about the rave scene in general and the "authentic experience" of the Dielectric. He describes the clothes worn by the ravers and the alternative atmosphere in the club, as well as the drug use. Later in the interview the man talks about the changes to Leicester in the late 1990s, his mother's involvement in the hosiery industry and the closure of the Dielectric in 1998