Time Line 5

Date	Event
*1825*	*The current HM Prison Leicester is built on Welford Road.*

*1832 (July)*	*Leicester to Swannington railway section 1 (Leicester to Bagworth) opens.*

*1833 (Feb)*	*Leicester to Swannington railway section 2 (Bagworth to Bardon Hill) opens.*

*1833 (April)*	*Leicester to Swannington railway section 3 (Bardon Hill to Coalville) opens.*

*1833 (Nov)*	*Leicester to Swannington railway section 4 (Coalville to Swannington) opens.*

*1833*	*Long Lane Colliery (Coalville) opens*

*1836*	*Theatre Royal built (now demolished)*

*1836*	*Lutterworth Town Hall is built.*

*1840*	*Construction of Mount St Bernard Abbey, designed by Pugin, in begun*

*1841 (July)*	*Thomas Cook runs his first excursion.*

*1844*	*Construction of Mount St Bernard Abbey Completed*

*1845*	*"Pork pie" Chapel built by Joseph Hansom.*

*1847*	*Foundation of Ratcliffe College*

*1850*	*The original corn exchange is built in the Market Place.*

*1855*	*Top floor and bridge added to corn exchange.*

*1859*	*Stoneygate School Built*

*1863*	*Henry Hughes founds the Falcon Works next to Loughborough Station.*

*1868*	*The Clock Tower is built.*

*1870*	*Cropston Reservoir opened*

*1876*	*Present St Peters Church, Glenfield, is built, when old church is deemed too small, and unsafe.*

*1876*	*Leicester Town Hall is built. Guildhall becomes Police HQ*

*1881*	*The old fish market is built.*

*1889*	*Charles Bush, an American Inventor, unites his electric tramcar manufacturing company with the Falcon works and founds the Brush Electrical Engineering Company.*

*1892*	*Thomas Cook Dies*

*1895*	*Foundation Stones of All Saints Primary School, Coalville, Laid*

*1898*	*Grand Hotel built on Granby Street, Leicester.*

*1898 (April)*	*Whitwick Colliery Disaster*

*1900*	*The Turkey Cafe built in Granby Street.*

*1904*	*First electric trams in Leicester run.*

*1912*	*Leicester Infirmary granted Royal Charter.*

*1913*	*De Montfort Hall designed by Shirley Harrison.*

*1915*	*Brush Engineering Company build their first aircraft.*

*1926*	*Wyggeston Girls School built on Regent Road. Now Elizabeth II College.*

*1927*	*Leicester Central Fire Station built on Lancaster Road*

*1928*	*Charles Bennion purchases Bradgate Park and presents it to the people of Leicestershire for "their quiet enjoyment".*

*1949*	*Last tramcar runs in Leicester on November 9th. The final tramcar was decorated in white and blue, and had flags flying from the roof.*

*1957*	*Leicester University Founded*

*1966*	*Leicester to Swannington railway closes*

*1967*	*County Hall built in Glenfield.*

*1969*	*Lee Circle Car Park Built*

*1972*	*Market Centre built.*

*1991*	*Shires Shopping Centre opened in Leicester.*

*1998*	Pope John Paul II beatifies Blessed Cyprian Tansi, a Cistercian monk at Mount St Bernard Abbey in Leicestershire, who died in the Leicester Royal Infirmary in 1969. Blessed Cyprian's feast day is on 10th January.