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Wembley Road FA Cup Sign

Originally named by a Mr David Edwards (a City Engineer) as a way to wish good luck to Leicester City in a 1969 FA Cup game at the historic stadium, The Wembley Road forms part of a sporting themed naming scheme for the then newly built Braunstone Frith Industrial Estate. Leicester City lost the final in 1969 but 50+ years later in 2021 a historic win for the team gave an opportunity to dedicate the sign to the FA Cup win it was intended to mark. In 2022 the sign was unveiled by club ambassador Alan Birchenall and Mr David Edwards.

One Giant Leap Festival - Overview Effect Projection

Part of the One Giant Leap festival in Leicester, Overview Effect is a outdoor spectacle celebrating the achievements of the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing. After the saturn rockets launch we join the astronauts on the surface of the moon, in doing so we appreciate their shift in understanding about the fragile planet we live on. The film, projected onto the back of Leicester`s historic Corn Exchange, asks us to celebrate what the human race can do but also asks the cost of the problems we chose to ignore. With climate change a "HOT TOPIC ISSUE" right now Metro Boulot Dodo`s film is as relevant today as when the apollo astronauts set foot on the moons surface 50 years ago.