Guess where this is?

[SitFlyer]

Another unusual building

[Brian Ellis]

Central Europe?

[SitFlyer]

Not in Central Europe. I googled that to make sure.

[Fat Tone]

Highways Department, Tblisi, Georgia.

[SitFlyer]

Yep

[Fat Tone]

Where is this?

[Fat Tone]

If it helps, I took the pic myself.

[Fat Tone]

..I'll also accept the location of the copy in s.Europe.

[Brian Ellis]

How about in front of the Town Hall in Leicester, this being the copy of the one in Porto?

[Fat Tone]

Well actually the one in Oporto is a copy of the one in Leicester, commissioned when they visited the foundry and saw it being made.

The blurry scene in the background was a Wombles display...you can just make out one of the heads.

[Brian Ellis]

Maybe what the inhabitants of Leicester say! It was believed to have been liberally copied from drawings of an older one in Venice. The winged lions are, of course, a Venetian symbol. The Porto one was inaugurated in its present position in 1878, while the Leicester one was inaugurated 18 months later. The story goes that Francis Hames, who architected the Town Hall in 1875, visited the foundry in Paris where they were casting the Porto one, commissioned by the Porto Companhia das Águas, and he ordered a second one for Leicester, probably using the same masters. I could not find the name of the sculptor, who may have been French.

Try this statue (should be easy!)

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[Fat Tone]

Not that I care, but I got my info from http://www.crosbyheritage.co.uk/loca...uare-fountain/

The Town Hall Square Fountain in Leicester is one of the best-loved sights in the City Centre.

It is situated in the middle of Town Hall Square, between Horsefair Street and Bishop Street, outside the Town Hall.

It was designed by Francis Hames, a local architect who had won the competition to design the new Town Hall, which in 1875 replaced the ancient Guildhall.

The money for the fountain was provided by Israel Hart, a prominent local businessman and philanthropist. There is a copy of the statue at Oporto, the second city of Portugal. The city fathers there wanted an attractive civic monument, and when they saw the Leicester fountain being made at a foundry in Paris, decided to have a similar one built there.

[degrub]

looks like a barrister - how about Rumpole at the Bailey in the city.

FT - what is the inscription ? i could almost make it out.

[Brian Ellis]

Most certainly not from or anything to do with the legal prodession. This should be Expressly easy for those in the UK.

[Fat Tone]

I'm pretty sure its at a transport museum of some sort, just couldn't find it in the time I had.

Either that or a Dairy