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20-03-17, 03:45 PM
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LONDON AT WAR, 1942, Piccadilly Circus.
© IWM (D 9309) Cars, a bus, and pedestrians go about their daily business in Piccadilly Circus, London. Eros can be seen in the foreground, sand-bagged and covered in War Savings posters and the Criterion Restaurant is visible on the right. The buildings are covered with advertisements.
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20-03-17, 03:58 PM
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Looks like Boots the chemist is where it still is today.
David
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20-03-17, 04:07 PM
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War or no war, I bet it was safer to walk the streets around Piccadilly Circus back then than it is now. Pick-pockets, drug dealers, distraction scammers, career drunks, Kamikaze cyclists... you name it! Heigh-ho! 
Last edited by Jelly Terror; 20-03-17 at 04:29 PM.
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20-03-17, 05:03 PM
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Eros was removed and sent to stay at berkhamsted castle along with a lot of the other statues in London for the duration, nelson was left as being too difficult to get down if I remember correctly.
Last edited by magpie; 20-03-17 at 06:42 PM.
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24-03-17, 01:21 PM
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LONDON AS USUAL:1940,Shaftesbury Avenue...and more
© IWM (D 1791) A general view looking down Shaftesbury Avenue towards the Lyric and Apollo Theatres. On the left can be seen the Monico Restaurant and on the right, the Trocadero. A large advert for 'Craven A' cigarettes is clearly visible.
 © IWM (D 1787) Brompton Road, looking towards Knightsbridge, with Harrods visible on the right.  © IWM (D 1796) A wide view of the Strand in London, looking East from Aldwych. Clearly visible are the Gaiety Theatre on the left and the church of St Mary-le-Strand in the centre of the road. 
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"There truly exists but one perfect order: that of cemeteries. The dead never complain and they enjoy their equality in silence." - “There are things we know that we know,” “There are known unknowns. That is to say there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we do not know we don't know.” Donald Rumsfeld, before the Iraqi Invasion,2003. Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese. Last edited by Voltigeur; 24-03-17 at 01:27 PM.
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24-03-17, 07:42 PM
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24-03-17, 08:00 PM
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25-03-17, 12:41 PM
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25-03-17, 02:33 PM
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Could this be the origin, I wonder, of the the euphemism 'going commando'??
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25-03-17, 05:14 PM
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25-03-17, 11:45 PM
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London Transport and the Piccadilly Commandos.
In 1937 London Transport took delivery of 100 Leyland Titan TD4 double-decker buses. These buses formed the STD class and operated from Hendon garage. During WW2 any serviceman in the Piccadilly area had the choice of either catching an STD courtesy of London Transport or an STD courtesy of the Piccadilly Commandos. If he took one of them upstairs on an STD he could even have caught an STD on an STD!!. Just a thought!!.
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25-03-17, 11:52 PM
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How typical though... you wait about for ages, then two come along at once!
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