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Leicester Leasing Did You Know?Thomas Cook himself, founder of today’s travel agent, created his first package trip in 1841. It was a train journey from Leicester to Loughborough. Outside of India, Leicester holds the worlds biggest celebration of the Hindu Festival of Lights, Diwali. Before the Battle of Bosworth in 1485, King Richard III stayed in the Blue Boar Inn in Leicester. Leicester Market is the biggest outdoor, covered market in the whole of Europe. Leicester is the Spiritual Home of Rock Music. It started back in 1980 with the first Monsters of Rock at Donington Park. It continues today with its awesome successor Download, the second largest music festival in Europe. It's one of the oldest cities in England, with a history going back at least two millennia. The native Iron Age settlement encountered by the Romans at the site seems to have developed in the 2nd or 1st centuries BC. Leicester history stretches back over 2000 years. If you visit you will find the ruins of a Roman Bath House at the Jewry Wall Museum, and an even older Iron Age hillfort in Burrough on the Hill. Leicester has made its presence felt across the world! Experts have concluded that the modern English language, spoken by over 1 billion people, originated in Leicester. It was first developed as a way for Anglo-Saxons and Vikings to communicate with each other. Thanks to Leicester-born butcher Henry Walker, we now have one of the world’s most recognised and delicious crisp brands. The story of the crisp-making giant began in 1948 in Henry Walker’s butcher plant, where he and his workers began making crisps due to a shortage of meat in post-war Britain Named as one of Lonely Planet’s ‘Hottest’ attractions in the world for 2015, the Kind Richard III Visitor Centre in Leicester has been created around the poignant place where King Richard III’s remains were buried for more than half a millennium . THE LEICESTER CAR LEASING SPECIALIST Smart Lease is a trading name of Leaseline Vehicle Management Ltd. We reserve the right to withdraw any offer, service or price without notice. Errors and omissions excepted. |