Car Leasing Deals Leicester
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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. 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. The City was Britain’s first ‘Environment City’ and the ‘greening’ of the city was singled out for special praise at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, apparently. Quite how you ‘green’ a city, we’re not sure. 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. You’ll soon cotton on to the fact that the Leicester dialect is unique with its clipped vowels and ‘ey up me ducks, ‘Les-tohs’ and ‘oo-yors’ - but we bet you never knew that our fine city is the birthplace of the English language we use today. Leicester’s main water course – which runs alongside the DMU campus – used to be known for its strange pink hue. This was all down to the city’s industrial heritage when it was famous for its textiles. The city hosts an annual Pride Parade, a Caribbean Carnival (the largest in the UK outside London), the largest Divali celebrations outside of India and the largest comedy festival in the UK. 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 city. 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 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. |