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Description: | This is Piccadilly Circus in 1912, looking across Shaftsbury Avenue and Coventry Street to the lower part of the London Pavilion.
By 1910, the illuminated Bovril and Schweppes signs had been erected, the shopkeepers on the northeastern side of the circus having realised they could rent out their facades for adverts. It was beyond the control of the London County Council to stop them. However the landlord for other sides of the Circus was the Crown, whose stricter lease agreements prohibited billboards.
The London Pavilion was originally a music hall. It became a cinema in 1934 and was where many of the Beatles films were previewed. By the end of the 20th century the building formed part of a shopping complex. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Leisure Cityscape | Temporal: | 1912 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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