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Description: | This view of Piccadilly Circus at night captures its glamorous mood and its major landmarks. Swan & Edgar's department store stands on the Circus behind the statue of Eros, otherwise known as the Shaftesbury memorial fountain. The County Fire Office marks the beginning of Regent Street.
By 1914 Piccadilly Circus was, in the words of the writer Robert Machray in 1902, 'the centre of the Night Side of London'. 'It is a scene that stirs the fancy, that touches the imagination .... As the theatres and music-halls of London empty themselves into the streets, the Circus is full of the flashing and twinkling of the multitudinous lights of hurrying hansoms, of many carriages speeding homeward to supper, of streams of people, men and women, mostly in evening dress, walking along, smiling and jesting, and talking of what they have been to see'. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Museum of London | Rights holder: | Digital image Museum of London | Subjects: | Leisure Cityscape Art and Design | Temporal: | 1914 | Source: | Museum of London | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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