Leicester Forest East The school will eventually provide 210 places with the potential to expand as demand increases over the next few years. The Discovery Schools Academy Trust has been selected to sponsor the school. The school has extensive parking for staff, parents, visitors and local residents. Most people know Leicester Forest East for the Leicester Forest East motorway service station on the M1 motorway, which opened on 14 February 1966 just over a year after the motorway reached Markfield. It was based on an Italian design used on the "autostrade" which is very unusual in Britain. At the time of opening it
Wallace Markfield Wallace Markfield Wallace Markfield (August 12, 1926 — May 24, 2002) was an American comic novelist best known for his first novel, "To an Early Grave" (1964), about four men who spend the day driving across Brooklyn to their friend's funeral. He is also known for "Teitlebaum's Window" (1970), a comic novel about a Jewish boy growing up in Brooklyn in the 1930s and 1940s. Markfield was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1965 after the publication of "To an Early Grave". Markfield was born in Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School, earning a B.A. from Brooklyn