Leicester's Statue of Liberty
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Leicester's Statue of Liberty by Mat Fascione as part of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
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Leicester's Statue of Liberty
Image: © Mat Fascione Taken: 19 Feb 2012
This replica Statue of Liberty is 17-foot tall and weighs 3.4 tons. It originally stood atop the Liberty Shoe factory in Leicester, until 2002 when the building was demolished. The statue, which dates back to the 1920s, was placed on a pedestal on a traffic island close to where it originally stood. The tall building under construction will eventually become student flats.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.625976
Longitude
-1.142521