Bates
was born and grew up in Leicester. He met Wallace while the latter was
for a while a teacher at the Collegiate School in Leicester. In
Leicester, Bates showed Wallace the wonders of beetles, and together
they planned their trip to the Brazilian Amazon. The photographs show a
walk through 18th and 19th Century Leicester streets that Bates and
Wallace would have known. To a southerner like myself, Leicester seems
a fairly grim place (I visited in January, and there were patches of
snow on the ground in places), but these older streets have a good
atmosphere...