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Selbourne Court, LOUGHBOROUGH, LE11 1DH

Formerly the Corporation Hotel, the Carpenter's Arms has, since 2009, been a Christian run 12 room residential rehabilitation centre for men challenged by drug and alcohol addiction. Prior to this it was in use as a homeless hostel. The building is locally listed and the Charnwood Borough Council website describes it thus: "Hotel / Public House. Now used as a hostel. Late C19. Plain Italianate styling. Red brick. Stone string course between 1st & 2nd floor. Stone cornice under eaves. Stone dressings to openings. Slate hipped roof. Feature brick stacks rising through eaves on each return facade. 2 tall storeys. Square on plan with annexe at rear. Ground floor windows to public rooms subdivided by rectangular pilasters. Main entrance offset under Italianate balustrade surmounting stone arched head containing fanlight. Stone relief above arch. Generally 4 paned vertical sliding sash windows to 1st floor. Ground Floor windows concealed behind vertical "blinds" obscuring top light." The main entrance under the balustrade has since been bricked up.

This area of the town includes a large number of tightly-packed terraced houses. A modern version of the corner shop stands on the corner of Moor Lane - the NIR Convenience Store.

Now the Carpenter's Arms (illustrated only with his hands). Not a pub, but 'A Christian organization providing shelter and support'. A locally listed building, late 19th century.

Formerly the Corporation Hotel.

Collett '5700' class 0-6-0PT no. 7760 is evidently in working order. It was built 12/30, transferred to the LTE in 12/61 as no. L90, withdrawn 1971, then preserved and run on various heritage railways to date, including the Great Central Railway.

No. 70013 Oliver Cromwell getting its photograph taken by an adoring horde alongside the water crane at Loughborough.

The two young crew members have just topped up the pannier tanks and are now climbing down from their lofty perch. The locomotive is Drummond designed M7 No. 53 built in 1905 and based at Swanage. It is carrying wartime Southern Railway black livery.

At the Great Central Railway's 2013 winter gala No. 6023, resplendent in BR express passenger blue livery, is taking on water. No. 6023 - King Edward II is one of three surviving King class steam locomotives and has been rebuilt from a totally derelict state.

This preserved locomotive was built 4/48 and employed straight away in the 1948 Locomotive Exchange Trials, then ran on normal BR services until withdrawn 12/65. It was saved from Woodham's Barry scrapyard and eventually acquired by the heritage Great Central Railway. It was restored at Loughborough and ran regularly until 8/92 - shortly before I photographed it there, when it developed 'boiler problems' that took many years to rectify - until 2014 in fact.