Filbert Street area

Whilst walking home from work, I thought I'd take a different way home rather than my usual route.

Having moved to Leicester after Leicester City F.C. moved from their old ground at Filbert Street to their new ground, the Walker stadium, I was curious to see what had happened where the old stadium was.

As can be seen from Figure 1, some student flats (on the left hand side of the picture) have gone up, but a vast part of the site remains unused.

Originally, Filbert Street football ground was built into the actual terrace street, with a gap in the housing making way for the fans to get to the turnstiles and enter the stadium.

The stadium was eventually demolished in 2003 and this portion of the site has sat empty ever since.

Looking on Google Maps and, the row of terraces behind the site consists of 17 houses.  A development of a similar sized house could easily fit within this site.

Figure 1