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This Halloween Leicester has been taken over by a host of spooky spirits there`s Lost Roman Legionnaires at Jewry Wall Museum and Ady Demon `s doing a Night Shift at BBC Radio Leicester , whats that apparition on the walls of the Guildhall ( Leicester`s Oldest Building ). Over at Cocoa Amore the Jungle drums are beating out a spooky rhythm as ancient spirits are stirring once again. Mischievous goblins are messing with time in the workings of the famous St Martins Square clock . The spirits of Vikings are haunting the Highcross beacons and over at the Grand Hotel the Paranormal Porter might just take your soul along with your bags !. On a side mission there is some questionable real estate goul have to put down more than the usual deposit to secure. Waiting for the Night Bus ( route 666 ) at the LCB depot is a lineup that would give any Crypt Crew a fright. Back at Highcross the beacons are now showing a collection of Halloween shapes in bright colours illuminating ...

In 2025 Leicesters Old Town Festival took on a Roman flavour with a Roman encampment on Jubilee Square featuring a life sized forum and exploring Leicester`s Roman past. Alongside the Romans the usual fun of the festival could be found at the @LeicesterCathedral Gardens with St George and his Dragon (inferno) FACT: St George was a solider in the Roman Army !. We start our day in a fiery way with Inferno the dragon breathing smoke and meeting visitors. Then from New Street we hear the unmistakable sound of bells as Leicester Morris arrive and perform a traditional dance in the Cathedral Gardens. After the excitement of the dance we move to the relative calm of the @LeicesterMuseums Guildhall where a Roman style mosaic is being created inspired by those soon to be displayed at @JewryWallRoman160AD (Re-Opening 26th July 2025). A brief march with a passing troop of Roman Soldiers brings us to Jubilee Square where Bill Brookman and Christine Parsons of www.billbrookman.co.uk welcom...

A look at a Roman Forum by artist @oliviergrossetete382 and built using cardboard boxes and parcel tape in Leicesters Jubilee Square as part of the Old Town Festival. @leicestercouncilnews In this film we follow the construction of a cardboard Roman Forum from public workshops in the @highcrossleicester shopping centre through to assembly Minecraft style on the location it once stood for real in Ratae (Leicester) in the modern Jubilee Square. The public (and Sir Peter Soulsby Mayor of Leicester) come together to help with the construction of the impressive structure using parcel tape and a willingness to work together, after several hours work the structure towers over the roman encampment beside it and a building from Leicesters past once again graces the skyline. Then as was the fate of the empire from which it came the temporary structure is raised to the ground and children gather to squash the cardboard before it`s taken to a waiting Rubbish (refuse) truck to be recycled...

Join the Roman Soldiers as they take a march around the city of Leicester or as they know it Ratae Corieltauvorum they form together at the impressive cardboard forum in Jubilee square before marching in tandem past BBC Radio Leicester and their own encampment. Turning left they pass Leicesters oldest building The Guildhall before a right turn into the Cathedral Gardens where they meet St George and his dragon in a unique meeting of eras and legend that could only happen at Leicesters Old Town Festival. Up past the KRIII centre and even the Romans get briefly held up by that most modern of chariots a delivery bike !. Now at the clock tower and into the Highcross Shopping Center where they surprise a number of shoppers with a loud chant. Marching onward along the high street they pass the Ride Leicester Roman themed bike ride with bikes and riders decorated in a Roman theme. Past the Highcross Pub and back into Jubilee Square the Leicester Viasakhi parade is passing through making ...

As building developments continued along Great Central Street and Vaughan Way in the city center, a team of archaeologists from The University Of Leicester discovered several roman buildings and the biggest preserved mosaic found in the city for 30 years.  Also found among the ruins of the site thought to be over 1,500 years old where pots, cooking utensils, brooches and a rare sunken room thought to be a possible shrine. My video shows a number of details at the site as it was opened up to a public eager to view the ruins of the cities roman past. For further information on the dig please visit the ULAS website.