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Tuesday, November 07, 2017
The historic factories of Leicester
A good slideshow showing some Leicester industrial history that now lies derelict and vulnerable to arsonists.
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I walked along the Grand Union towpath in about 1978 and recall that there was one factory with a small-scale Statue of Liberty on the roof....?
Unfortunately, the Liberty building was demolished some years ago (should have been refurbished for alternative use instead) and replaced with a modern building of similar proportions, but the statue was saved and now stands on a pedestal nearby – you can probably find it on Google Street View.
4 comments:
I walked along the Grand Union towpath in about 1978 and recall that there was one factory with a small-scale Statue of Liberty on the roof....?
Unfortunately, the Liberty building was demolished some years ago (should have been refurbished for alternative use instead) and replaced with a modern building of similar proportions, but the statue was saved and now stands on a pedestal nearby – you can probably find it on Google Street View.
I took some photos of the Corah site a year ago – see album
here
There are a couple of photos of Leicester's Statue of Liberty on this blog.
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