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Piccadilly Circus is a road junction and public space of London's West End in the City of Westminster.It was built in 1819 to connect Regent Street with Piccadilly.In this context, a circus, from the Latin word meaning "circle", is a round open space at a street junction.
Many are best known by the name of their principal owner. The following is a list of both circuses and their country of origin. For more information on circuses in general see Circus , or Contemporary circus , or for information regarding the ancient Roman circus, see Circus Maximus .
Piccadilly (/ ˌ p ɪ k ə ˈ d ɪ l i / ⓘ) is a road in the City of Westminster, London, England, to the south of Mayfair, between Hyde Park Corner in the west and Piccadilly Circus in the east. It is part of the A4 road that connects central London to Hammersmith , Earl's Court , Heathrow Airport and the M4 motorway westward.
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Anteros is the subject of the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain in Piccadilly Circus, London, where he symbolises the selfless philanthropic love of the Earl of Shaftesbury for the poor. The memorial is sometimes given the name The Angel of Christian Charity and is popularly mistaken for Eros.
The Criterion Theatre opened on Piccadilly Circus on 21 March 1874, and in 1881, two more houses appeared: the Savoy Theatre in The Strand, built by Richard D'Oyly Carte specifically to showcase the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan, opened in October (the first theatre and public building to be lit by electric lights, with The Times ...
The inn was located on sloping ground stretching between Jermyn Street and Piccadilly Circus, known as Regent Circus. [2] A competition was held for the design of a concert hall complex, with Thomas Verity winning out of 15 entries. He was commissioned to design a large restaurant, dining rooms, ballroom, and galleried concert hall in the basement.
[13] [14] It was returned to Piccadilly Circus on 29 June 1947. [15] The statue was again removed in the 1980s – this time for restoration – and resited upon its return in February 1985. During the restoration a set of plaster casts was unearthed in the basements of the Victoria and Albert Museum which revealed damage to the statue. [16]