Market Place, Leicester
The statue of John Henry Manners, the Fifth Duke of Rutland, by Edward Davis. It stands in the Market Place outside the Corn Exchange. The statue was the first public statue to be put up in Leicester. It was unveiled by Sir Frederick Gustavus Fowke, Provincial Grand Master of Freemasons for the Province of Leicestershire, on 28 April 1852. A group of boys and girls have been posed by the statue. In the early days of photography, when this image was taken, anyone who moved came out as a ghostly figure. You can just make out a girl carrying a baby.
