[1] The statue was initially commissioned in 1936 by William Bassett-Green, a wealthy local businessman but it was 1940 before a scale model had been produced by the sculptor, Sir William Reid Dick.

[2] Reid Dick worked through the Second World War to produce a full scale model of the statue.

After the war the statue was cast and placed on a plinth influenced by Sir Edwin Lutyens, before finally being unveiled by Peggy Z. Douglas on the 22nd of October 1949.

[3] The statue was adorned with the flags of the United Kingdom and the United States as Mrs Douglas was the wife of the American Ambassador, Lewis Williams Douglas.

[2] The statue depicts Lady Godiva on her naked ride through the city to protest her husband’s oppressive taxes.