Leicester Town Hall: 150 years of stories
The well-known and lesser-known sides of Leicester’s civic history
The Guild Hall used to be the city’s Town Hall, but during the 1800s the city began to outgrow it. An old cattle market was cleared for a new ambitious new building off Horsefair Street. It was opened on the 7th August 1876. Since then, it’s seen action as Leicester Crown Court, a seat of local government, and even been the target of an unexploded bomb in World War 2.
City Mayor Sir Peter Soulsby gave BBC Leicester’s Ady Dayman a guided tour.
Presenter: Ady Dayman
Producer: Andrew Fewster
Image: Leicester City Council: Story of Leicester
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