Frog Island

Settlement in Leicestershire

England

Frog Island

Vulcan Factory Founded by Josiah Gimson, they built many engine here including <a href="https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1211677">SK5806 : Beam engines, Abbey Pumping Station, Leicester</a>. An earlier site on Welford road was where the engineers started. This site, next to the Midland main line covered 3.5 acres. — Vulcan Factory Credit: Ashley Dace

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Frog Island Images

Images are sourced within 2km of 52.641912/-1.1433773 or Grid Reference SK5805. Thanks to Geograph Open Source API. All images are credited.

Vulcan Factory

Founded by Josiah Gimson, they built many engine here including SK5806 : Beam engines, Abbey Pumping Station, Leicester. An earlier site on Welford road was where the engineers started. This site, next to the Midland main line covered 3.5 acres.

Ashley Dace

Vulcan Engine works, Leicester

Founded by Josiah Gimson, they built many engines. An earlier site on Welford road was where the engineers started. This site, next to the Midland main line covered 3.5 acres. Above the central doorway is an engraved inscription - Engine Works.

Chris Allen

Uppingham Road, approaching Humberstone Road station, 1995

View westward on A47 Uppingham Road, Leicester. The bridge ahead carries the ex-Midland main lines northwards from Leicester (London Road, until 4/5/70), Humberstone Road station being just to the left of this bridge.

Ben Brooksbank

Leicester - Vulcan Works - window detail

Dave Bevis

Leicester - Vulcan Works - Vulcan Road frontage

For alternative views of this fine building, please see SK6004 : Leicester - Vulcan Works - window detail and Chris Allen's SK5904 : Vulcan factory, Leicester.

Dave Bevis

Industrial unit by the railway line

N Chadwick

Humberstone Road entering Leicester

Passing beneath the Midland Mainline railway (Leicester and London St Pancras stations to the left)

Tim Heaton

Abbey Park

Following NCN route 6 into Leicester. Ornamental waterways in Abbey Park.

Richard Webb

West Bridge, Leicester

Neil Geering

The Golden Mile, Leicester

From Belgrave flyover, looking down Belgrave Road. This area of Leicester is predominantly Asian and this street is famous for its Indian jewellery shops, supposedly more than in Bond Street, hence the nick name. (Note: Photographer was a passenger in the car.)

Kate Jewell

Grand Union Canal Leicester

View from a road bridge looking towards the point where a branch line from the Midland Railway's Swannington route crossed the canal on a wooden lifting bridge.The stone wall encloses a stonemason's yard.

Terry Roberts

Dover Street Car Park Leicester

View from Dover Street, looking towards London Road.

Terry Roberts

Factory Rydal Street Leicester

Typical of the older mix of housing, factories and scrapyards between the Royal Infirmary and Narborough Road. Expansion of the Infirmary and De Montfort University has led to redevelopment of this area for student housing, bars and shops.

Terry Roberts

Abbey Park Campus, Leicester College

The award winning conversion of old canal side warehousing accommodates the Campus library. It sits on a short branch of the Grand Union Canal.

Kate Jewell

Abbey Park Campus, Leicester College

The Performing Arts and the Music Engineering departments are housed in the Lero Building at Abbey Park Campus. It is an old canal side industrial building. (Note, Nov 2007: This building along with others on the site have been sold off for redevelopment. Leicester College is building a new campus centre on the corner of the site up against Belgrave Flyover.)

Kate Jewell

Grand Union Canal, Leicester

Old barges at the junction of the canal dock with the Grand Union Canal. Abbey Park and the River Soar are behind the trees. Taken from Abbey Park Campus, Leicester College.

Kate Jewell

Diwali lights, Belgrave Road, Leicester

The Diwali Festival of Light is the major event in the Hindu Calendar. The celebrations in Leicester are renowned not only in Britain but world wide. The lights go up in October with a Diwali theme and, during November, the Hindu lamps are replaced by seasonal symbols to celebrate Christmas in December. The decorated building is the Belgrave Neighbourhood Centre which is just in the featured square. This photograph was taken at 5.30 pm on 24th October, looking north from the boundary with SK5905. See Link

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