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The Charlotte

The Charlotte is a real ale pub in Leicester, England, on the edge of the City Centre, on Oxford Street, opposite De Montfort University. The venue re-opened on the 19th October 2015. The Charlotte was originally named The Princess Charlotte, later to become simply 'The Charlotte'. The Charlotte was a nationally recognised 'circuit venue' on the live music scene, hosting many famous bands such as Carter USM, Radiohead, Elastica, The Cranberries, Pulp, The Stone Roses, The La's, Spiritualized, The Killers, Bloc Party, The Arctic Monkeys, Brian and the Teenagers, Kingmaker, Oasis, The Libertines, The Offspring, Razorlight, The Buzzcocks, Primal Scream, Muse and Kasabian. On January 15, 2009, it was announced the Charlotte was facing closure, after the operating company behind the venue went into administration. On March 10, 2009 it was announced that the Charlotte would remain closed for the foreseeable future, however it reopened on October 8, 2009. It was subsequently announced that the last ever night would be on March 13, 2010 and that the site would be developed into student flats. The Venue finally closed for good on March 13, 2010. On 11 April 2014 The Charlotte re-opened briefly as a pub hosting occasional live music sessions. It closed again just a few months later. In August 2015 it was announced that The Charlotte was being taken on by two real ale pub landlords from Leicester. The Charlotte opened as an independent real ale pub on 19th October 2015, serving microbrewery real ales from around the country seven days a week.

Cavendish House

Abbey Park is a public park in Leicester, England, through which the River Soar flows. It is owned and managed by Leicester City Council, Planning for the park was underway by 1879, as part of designs by the borough surveyors for the relief of flooding in the area. Opened on 29 May 1882 by the Prince and Princess of Wales, the park was created in an area that had previously been described as "marshy ground in a poor district" at a cost of over £40,000. The works included the widening and deepening of the river over a length of around a mile, with the excavated earth used to create mounds within the park, as well as the construction of stone weirs and locks. Three new bridges were constructed crossing the river. An artificial lake was created and over 33,000 trees planted. Excavations as part of the work discovered remains of animals including elephants and rhinoceros. The park was extended in 1932. The park has an area of 57 acres, and contains the site of the 12th century Leicester Abbey, which is marked out with low stone walls, and the ruins of Cavendish House (built in the 17th century by William Cavendish, 1st Earl of Devonshire using stone from the abbey). The house was used by Charles I after the siege of Leicester during the English civil war in 1645; after he left, his soldiers set fire to it leaving the house gutted. The charred stone window frame is still visible today. The abbey ruins contain a memorial to Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, who was buried in the grounds. He died while en route from York to London on 29 November 1530; a statue of him stands next to the Park's cafe. Two lodges designed by architect Mr. J. Tait were built at the Abbey Road entrance to the park. The park has regularly won the Green Flag Award, a national award made annually to parks which reach a high standard. It has formal gardens, a sensory garden, a boating lake and model boat lake, a miniature railway, visitor centre, cafe, children's play area with paddling pool, pets corner, tennis courts, a bowling green, and a bandstand. The park was the site of an annual flower show dating back to the 19th century, which included a swimming gala and evolved into the Abbey Park Show in the 1940s, with the addition a range of entertainment and displays. It continued until 1995, when it was abolished due to falling attendances and rising costs. It was also the site of the Pageant of Leicester, held in 1932. The Abbey Park Festival was an annual music festival which was held for over twenty years from 1981. The Abbey has been the site of training excavations by Archaeology students at Leicester University. Abbey Park now also houses the offices and studios of Takeover Radio within one of its Gatehouse Lodges.

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