So much has changed since this 1969 aerial view over Leicester railway station was taken

This splendid bird’s eye view of Leicester was taken in November 1969, not long before the landscape was to undergo a massive transformation.

The city’s London Road railway station dominates the foreground.

It was soon be the subject of a huge re-development scheme, although the Victorian facade did survive the upheaval.

St George’s Tower, considered by many as an eyesore, and which was for many years a Post Office building, now stands on the waste ground which can be seen in the left centreground.

Eagle-eyed readers may be able to make out the Royal Mail public house, which stood on the corner of Fox Street and Campbell Street.

Though it survived this period of redevelopment, it is now no longer there.

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Built in the 1840s as The Railway Hotel, it closed in 2000 and has since been demolished.

The area beyond the old Leicester Mercury building – in the days before the trees were planted – has changed completely.

It was transformed by a major road, St George’s Way, now part of the inner city ring road, and the addition of St George’s retail park, although some of the buildings remain.