The Leicester Oral History Audio Trail

An audio trail from Leicester's Town Hall to the Clocktower

The following sound files take you from Town Hall Square to the Clocktower, round the back of Highcross and back to the Clocktower via Silver Street. The voices are taken from the collections of the East Midlands Oral History Archive. A commentary by radio Leicester's Stephen Butt puts the clips into context and tells you who is talking.

These clips are also available at the Empedia website, which enables you to follow the trail on your mobile phone or similar device - http://empedia.info/maps/29.

And on EMOHA's You Tube channel where you can also see pictures of the places being described - http://www.youtube.com/user/EMOralHistory.

All tracks are .mp3 files which you can save to your computer/mobile device in whatever way your computer demands e.g. right click and 'save target as'.

Track 1 - Town Hall Square

Track 2 - Theatre Royal

Track 3 - Simpkin & James

Track 4 - Market

Track 5 - Clock Tower

Track 6 - Church Gate

Track 7 - Bond Street Maternity Hospital/Faire Hospital

Track 8 - Highcross

Track 9 - Highcross Street

Track 10 - BBC Radio Leicester

Track 11 - Silver Street, Opera House

Track 12 - Silver Street, Il Rondo

And here is a map of the route with photos of where each track is - Audio Tour Map.pdf

Although it isn't part of the audio trail, the following link takes you to something EMOHA created to use 'Macromedia Breeze' software. It is a presentation of 'A Victorian Walk into Leicester' featuring the voice of Joe Wardle. If it says you need a newer version of Flash click anywhere and see what happens - it might work! Move through the 13 slides using the forward button.

http://breeze.le.ac.uk/p49468705/

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