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Description: | This is Piccadilly Circus by the junction with Regent Street. The Shaftesbury Memorial, or Eros as it is often known, does not in fact represent the Greek god of love, but the angel of Christian charity.
Philanthropic Lord Shaftesbury's lifelong campaign was to educate working-class children and to limit the hours they worked in factories. The statue was moved from its position during the 1925-28 reconstruction of Piccadilly Circus Underground station.
The main building on the right is the County Fire Office. Its arcaded frontage was built in around 1820 by Robert Abraham as a copy of the Old Somerset House.
The building behind the statue is the Swan and Edgar department store, which was rebuilt by Sir Reginald Blomfeld in 1920, after a Zeppelin raid scored a direct hit in 1917. By the beginning of the 21st century, the building had become a Virgin Megastore. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Leisure Cityscape | Temporal: | Jul 1924 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Creator: | Photographer : Topical Press | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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