Archive Sundays

Event Description

Come and explore highlights from the Council’s Photographic Archive

Come and explore some of the highlights of the Council’s Photographic collection with Archive Sundays. See themed digital exhibitions created by volunteers, on display at three of Leicester's Museums this autumn!

Archive Sundays is a project created by Leicester Museums Volunteers who are working on digitising the City Council’s vast collection of photographic negatives. The archive currently contains over 100,000 images that provide a photographic record of Leicester and how the city has changed over the last 70 years, with thousands more to be discovered.

Volunteers select photographs which centre around a chosen theme to create digital exhibitions which can then be showcased to members of the public.

Exhibition Programme:

Leicester Museum & Art Gallery

• Sunday 13th October: Abbey Park, Graffiti, Terraced Living, Windows & Doors


• Sunday 20th October: Carnival, Fixing a hole, Rugby, Thomas Cook
  


• Sunday 27th October: City of Leicester Show 1987, Concerts, Masks, Costumes & Fancy Dress; Radio
  


• Sunday 10th November: Leicester Riders, Rugby in Leicester, Swimming in the City: St Margaret’s Baths, Swimming in the City: Abbey Park; Aylestone; Cossington; Downing Drive; Evington & Spence Street Baths
  


• Sunday 17th November: Leicester Riders, Rugby in Leicester, Swimming in the City: St Margaret’s Baths, Swimming in the City: Abbey Park; Aylestone; Cossington; Downing Drive; Evington & Spence Street Baths
  Plus: Leicester Guildhall, Medieval Mayhem - Leicester Market Festival; and the Development of St Martin's Square


• Saturday 7th December - Monday 23rd December: The Christmas Archive Special - showing every day leading up to Christmas

Leicester Guildhall

• Sunday 20th October: Concerts, Leicester Guildhall, Pubs, Radio
  


• Sunday 27th October: Cinema, Men at Work, The Cathedral and St Martins Parish, Medieval Mayhem – Leicester Market Festival


• Sunday 10th November: City of Leicester Show, Concerts, Graffiti


• Sunday 8th December - Monday 23rd December: The Christmas Archive Special - showing every day leading up to Christmas

Abbey Pumping Station

• Sunday 13th October: Cinema, City of Leicester Show, Trams, Washing Lines
  


• Sunday 20th October: Construction of Middleton Street Bridge, Gas, IWA Rally, Masks & Costumes
  


• Sunday 27th October: Abbey Park, Guildhall and Guildhall Lane, River Soar, St Martins Square

Please check this page for more Archive Sundays to be confirmed in the coming weeks.

Image: Southfields, January 1969

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