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New King Street, Loughborough
Image: © Robert Eva
Taken: 7 Oct 2017
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The Great Central Railway Hotel
Still has its original name 110 years or so after it was built by the Great Central Railway at the time of the opening of its line to London
Image: © K A
Taken: 27 Mar 2010
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Houses in Wharncliffe Road
With a fine view of Loughborough Central station, after the demolition of an intervening building.
Image: © Christine Johnstone
Taken: 4 Aug 2012
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Loughborough: The Great Central Station Hotel
Contemporary with the opening of the nearby railway and Loughborough Central station in 1899, the hotel currently stands empty and disused, its former clientele of commercial travellers using the railway having long since disappeared.
The building is locally listed and the Charnwood Borough Council website describes it thus:
"Hotel, originally built in conjunction with GCR railway. Late C19, probably 1898/99. Unremarkable C20 extension at rear. A free mix of Neoclassical, Tudor, Gothic & Domestic Revival design elements. Red brick with stone/stucco window dressings, string courses and inlaid decorative panels. 3 storeys. Multi-gabled red clay tile pitched roofs. Gables upstanding with stone copings. Oversailing eaves with stepped stone string course. Tudor style gable stacks with corbelled heads and terra-cotta pots. Off centre "T" plan fronting both Great Central Road and Wharncliffe Road. Main entrance off Wharncliffe Road via porch with Italianate balustrade above stone dressed round arch containing panelled doors and fanlight. Chamfered 2 storey bays to both facades. Generally vertical sliding sash windows. Intrusive signage."
Earlier images of the hotel in happier times, in 1977 and 2002 respectively, can be seen in the Transport Archive website here http://www.transportarchive.org.uk/getobject.php?rnum=L2169&searchitem=loughborough&mtv=L3&pnum=1 and here http://www.transportarchive.org.uk/getobject.php?rnum=L3247&searchitem=loughborough&mtv=L3&pnum=1
Image: © Nigel Cox
Taken: 17 Jul 2011
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Building incorporating flats and Lime Tree Day Nursery, Wharncliffe Road
Image: © Roger Templeman
Taken: 30 Sep 2015
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Former Great Central Station Hotel, Loughborough
Image: © Jonathan Thacker
Taken: 26 Jan 2023
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Johnnie Johnson Mural, Loughborough
This eye catching mural by Buber Nebz (real name Dan Smith) graces a building at the junction of New King Street and Great Central Road. It depicts Air Vice Marshal James Edgar ‘Johnnie’ Johnson who was born in Barrow upon Soar and attended Loughborough Grammar School. After graduating as a civil engineer from University College Nottingham, he was initially articled to the borough surveyor of Melton Urban Council before joining the RAF in 1939. As a Spitfire pilot he flew more than 700 combat missions and shot down 38 German aircraft (the highest score of any RAF pilot). Johnson died in 2001 leaving money in his will for the benefit of pupils at his old school. This is one of a collection of murals around the town depicting famous local people.
Image: © Stephen McKay
Taken: 23 Mar 2022
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Mural to Johnnie Johnson
Air Vice Marshal James Edgar Johnson, CB, CBE, DSO & Two Bars, DFC & Bar, DL (9 March 1915 – 30 January 2001) was educated at Loughborough Grammar School https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnnie_Johnson_(RAF_officer)#
Image: © Jonathan Thacker
Taken: 26 Jan 2023
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Loughborough: at the corner of Great Central Road
The mural commemorates Air Vice Marshal James Edgar "Johnnie" Johnson, a Spitfire ace during the Second World War, who was educated at Loughborough Grammar School.
Image: © John Sutton
Taken: 6 May 2023
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Great Central Road, Loughborough
Image: © JThomas
Taken: 12 Jul 2012
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