Liberty Shoes
of Leicester.
1921 Lennard Brothers changed its name to Liberty Shoes Ltd
1932 The MD is Disney Charles Barlow and trading as Liberty Shoes.
1962 'Lowe and Carr, printers, take over the Liberty Shoe factory in Eastern Boulevard.'[1]
1986 'The familiar but unexpected roof-top figure representing the Statue of Liberty on a Leicester building near the canal dates back to 1920 when directors of the local firm Lennards Shoes visited New York. They like most visitors most impressed by enormous Statue of Liberty by Bartholdi which since 1886 stands on Bedloe's island in the harbour A gift from France to commemorate their friendship grateful Americans returned the gesture by sending back a smaller replica of the statue This stands near the Seine in the centre of Paris Since then other large stone copies have been made The directors of Leonard's Shoes commissioned one from sculptor Joseph Herbert Morcom to adorn their new building in Walnut Street Naturally from then on their firm became appropriately known as Liberty Shoes which has since ceased to exist'[2]