Photo above: Maddison’s, rear of 57 Humberstone Gate. Attractive walk through: in another position, this may have worked, but Humberstone Gate at the time did not have the best of reputations.
Despite the amount of money thrown at it in improvements by the council, this side of Humberstone Gate never escaped its ‘rough’ image.
The bay window of the old Horse & Groom can be seen, the building now occupied by a mobile phone shop. This area never quite living up to or down (whichever way you looked at it) its 1950s-60s ‘vibe’.