Lennards Shoes factory was built on the corner of Eastern Boulevard and Upperton Road in 1919. The factory's directors had seen and been impressed by the original Statue of Liberty during their trip to New York in 1920, and on their return they commissioned a considerably reduced version from sculptor Joseph Herbert Morcom. The statue was carved from three pieces of stone at Morcom's workshop in The Newarke, Leicester.
Following the erection of the statue on the building, the firm became known as 'Liberty Shoes'. During the 1980s and 1990s, the building fell out of use and the statue was subject to deterioration and vandalism. It was restored before reinstatement in its new home in 2008.
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