Boy with the Leaking Boot statue
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Boy with the Leaking Boot statue
Image: © Chris Taken: 7 Feb 2013
See: Image The recently replaced Boy with the Leaking Boot statue on Kingsway Cleethorpes. This is a statue showing a young boy, with a bare right foot, holding up his right boot and looking at it. The statue is about 4 feet (1.2 m) tall, with water emerging from the toe of the boot. This example was originally given to the town of Cleethorpes in 1918 by John Carlborn. It is reported that he was a Swedish immigrant to Cleethorpes who had built up a successful shipping business, and that the statue was a copy of one in the Hasselbacken Restaurant in Stockholm, Sweden. The statue now stands in a pond in the Diana Princess of Wales Memorial Gardens, on Kingsway. It was stolen and replaced in 2002 and 2008, and vandalised in October 2011. In July 2012, two youths were recorded on CCTV as they frolicked naked in the pond and destroyed the fountain. A replacement statue was made by a local garden ornaments manufacturer and installed with improved security in September 2012.
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Image Location
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53.552832
Longitude
-0.018773