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Piccadilly Circus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2726 words) |
 | Piccadilly Circus was created in 1819, at the junction with Regent Street, which was then being built under the planning of John Nash on the site of a house and garden belonging to a Lady Hutton. |
 | The statue has become a London icon, and a graphical illustration of the statue is used as the symbol of the Evening Standard newspaper and appears on its masthead. |
 | The sculptor Alfred Gilbert had already sculpted a statue of Anteros, when commissioned for the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain, and chose to reproduce the same subject, who as 'The God of Selfless Love' was deemed to suitably represent the philanthropic 7th Earl of Shaftesbury. |
| User:Tagishsimon/Gallery London 240404 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (712 words) |
 | A wander from Clapham Junction to Vauxhall - Westminster - Whitehall - Trafalgar Square - Covent Garden - Holborn - Blackfriars Bridge - St. |
 | Statue of Oliver Cromwell outside the Palace of Westminster, London. |
 | Statue of a man driving sheep; Paternoster Square was long the site of a livestock market. |