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The following is a review of the six main sections

of the Leicester Overseas Website:

Bulletin Board: The idea for a bulletin board came from frequent visits the one at the Leicester Mercury's web site "This is Leicestershire" (www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk); however, at this location, your messages won't disappear after just a couple of weeks. They will be saved and archived. On the main page of this section you will find how to access easy to follow lists of all the people (over 550 so far) by country who have left details about their old�neighbourhood, school or work, etc. You never know, you may be surprised who you �may contact. A few words about yourself in the Guest Book, may lead to you�contacting an old friend, neighbour or acquaintance or perhaps and�old school chum or workmate.�Note: If you want to make contacts, you don't have to be an expat to use the guest book.
 

About The Artist or the David Weston Gallery. In this section you can take a nostalgic look at old Leicester, rural Leicestershire (Bradgate Park) and various transport scenes through the eyes and words of local artist David Weston. His work was another inspiration for this site and David's unique view of our home town is especially poignant if you grew up in the Leicester�area before the early sixties. If on the other hand you grew up at a later date, not to worry, here's a chance� to get a glimpse of your heritage: that which has stood for hundreds of years and that which stands only�in our memories. The Gallery once had a total of 30 images of David Weston's work. Unfortunately� David has now asked me to remove 14 of these images as he feels they don't do justice to�his more recent work. With a heavy heart I have done as he requested.�David Weston lives just outside of Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire.

Who's Who in Leicester and Leicestershire.� In this section there is an extensive list of over 440 entries with information about people who range from the high-profile and world-famous (Engelbert, Thomas Cook, the Attenboroughs, John Carey Merrick - The Elephant Man) to the not-so-well known: Johnnie Johnson (WWII flying ace), Dick Turpin (The Highwayman), George Fox (founder of the Quakers), Thomas Hooker (Father of American Democracy) and William Brown (mutineer aboard the Bounty). These are just a few of the notable people in the very extensive list of names in "Who's Who." You won't find any list like this on the Internet for Leicester and Leicestershire; in fact, you won't find a list quite like it anywhere else for that matter (not for the Leicester area anyway). Did Jack The Ripper come from Leicestershire? Check out the entry on Frederick Deeming to find out more. How about the famous outlaw Jesse James? Find out what connection he had with Leicestershire. The link above will take you to the Index Page. Under the index listings you will find over 420 names and links to individual sections that will have more information (and often further links to other sites) on any of the names listed.
 

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Leicester Links: This section will link you up with an ever increasing list of quality internet sites that make up some of the best of Leicester & Leicestershire on the Web.� I'm sure there are many more, and the work of finding them is ongoing.� If you have a favourite Leicester or Leicestershire website that you would like see added to this links page, please let me know about it. I'll also be happy to reciprocate with other webmasters by swapping links with any Leicester or Leicestershire-related website - or any other expats website for that matter. So if you're the webmaster of any related site, please get in touch.

Nostalgia Junction: Even if you are not a railway enthusiast, I'm sure you will enjoy the railway art of David Weston. Check out the Master Cutler (my favourite) as it steams out of Leicester Central Station on the Great Central Railway in the early fifties.�This section also contains holiday poster images and reproductions of post cards showing both the history of the locomotive and the many railway companies that existed prior to the Second World War. Nostalgia Junction is dedicated to the memory of the days of steam railways, and, as far as I'm concerned, nostalgic thoughts, and memories of the days of steam, are synonymous experiences.
 

If, like me, you have lived abroad for many years, you may not be aware of some of the fine authors and novelists that hail from the Leicester & Leicestershire area. Some, like Sue Townsend, Julian Barnes, Joe Orton, Colin Wilson, Lynda Page and John Thomas Edson (the writer of western novels) are very well known and even world famous. However, there are also the less-than-well-known or the up-and-coming novelists and writers: people like Jane Adams, Freda�Warrington, Clive Collins, Patricia Wendorf  and Max Wade-Matthews for example. You can find� out more about these authors and novelists (and others beside) in "The Market Place." Here we offer not only views and reviews of over sixty books and novels by local authors, but also offer you the chance to purchase these books online through either Amazon Books (amazon.co.uk) or Chapters Canada (chapters.ca).
 

The following is a review of six other sections of Leicester Overseas:

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Memory Lane:

 
In this section you are invited to write about your own nostalgic memories and experiences of growing up in, or of working in, the City of Leicester or in the County of Leicestershire. So far we have five contributions by expats: Journeys by Bus, On the Buses, Growing up in Broughton Astley, Olde Leicester and Peewit Hollow (Glen Hills). Just E-mail me if you have a story to tell.
 

Nautical Words and Phrases in Modern Usage:

 
Hardly Leicester-related is it? However, it's still a pretty fascinating look at just how we've adopted so many nautical words and terms into our everyday conversations. English is an idiomatic language saturated with maritime words and phrases. Indeed, our language is so steeped with maritime history that the very ebb and flow of the world's seas and oceans rolls off the tip off our tongues with much that we say in our everyday conversations.
 

Short Stories Set In Leicester:

 
By Clive Collins. Clive was born in Leicester in 1948. He has worked as a teacher in Ireland, West Africa and Japan. His first Novel, The Foreign Husband, appeared in 1989, a second, Sachiko's Wedding was published in 1990, and his third, Misunderstandings, a collection of short stories, was published in 1993.  He presently lives in Tokyo with his wife and daughter. Clive has allowed me to take two stories from Misunderstandings, and, in addition, he has sent me three more short stories for inclusion in this section. Four of these five stories are about a young boy (Stevie) growing up in Leicester. The stories are called: The Sea, The Beautiful Sea, Telling Stories, Spell on You, The Weather That Christmas and The Lost World.
 

School's Out - Leicestershire:

 
A new section listing expats and locals by their schools. This section is for expats worldwide and throughout the UK as well as for residents of Leicester & Leicestershire. If you want to be listed for the various schools, provide a few details (along with dates of course) about your old schools in the Guest Book first. Within one or two days, I will then transfer some of your details from the Guest Book to "School's Out." In addition, I will also make an entry for you in one of the International Log Books corresponding to whichever country you now live in.

The Foursights:

 
In the early 1960s, at the very height of "Beatlemania" and the "Mersey Sound," four teenage lads, who had all gone to Glen Hills primary school, got together in 1963 to form a moderately successful pop group. They went on to win a "Best Band" competition at the Palais, record on the Columbia label, appear live on BBC Radio in London, open for the Kinks at the Corn Exchange in Leicester and have many other interesting experiences. This section is a nostalgic look back at those heady carefree days. A time when all seemed possible for four youngsters who had all grown up together in the same suburb of Leicester. Fifteen minutes of fame indeed...
 

My Rant:

 
"My Rant," or as I also like to call this section, "Language Timothy." Some times you just need to sound off a bit and what better way to do that than to write down your frustrations and aggravations.  Bad language, viagra, spam, customs officials, soccer mums, liberals, accents, the Titanic movie, the culture of litigation, the politically correct - none are safe from the effusive and acerbic ramblings emanating from my keyboard. Not for the faint-hearted.
 

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