2804 Sporting Achievement

This statue, dating from 1996, celebrates a time when Leicester had winning teams in cricket, rugby and football (or, for Americans, soccer). I don't know what the interloper on the right, sitting on the statue, has achieved, apart from immortality in my photo collection!

1104 Statue of Cardinal Wolsey

Statue of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey in the Café Garden in Abbey Park, Leicester. There is a memorial to him not many yards away in the abbey ruins, but the whereabouts of his remains is apparently a mystery. He died in 1530 after a varied and interesting career, including a long spell as Henry VIII's Chancellor.

The statue was donated by the Wolsey Knitwear Company, whose nearby factory building in Abbey Meadows became a care home.

0204 The Leicester Seamstress

This is a detail of the Leicester Seamstress statue in Hotel Street, created by James Walter Butler RA. The statue is of an 18th-century seamstress sewing the seam of a stocking. The statue was unveiled in 1990.

Hosiery was Leicester's principal industry in the 18th and 19th centuries, and, with many changes, survived into modern times.

0903 The Pioneer

This is a statue alongside the National Space Centre in Leicester that commemorates the space walk by US astronaut Ed White in 1965. The Space Centre building is in the background.


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