My current enthusiasm for exploring the Leicester suburb of Aylestone was curbed by the weather on Saturday.

I sat in The Black Horse and watched the rain falling. Eventually I got tired of waiting for it to stop and ordered a taxi back to Leicester station.

My exploration of Aylestone began with a search for the birthplace of C.P. Snow. But he was not the only noted 20th-century novelist to have lived there:
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