Piccadilly Circus, London 1973
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Routemaster RM 913 pauses in the heart of Piccadilly Circus, sporting a front-mounted Penthouse magazine advert—very typical of early-70s bus branding. Behind it, the London Pavilion is promoting Live and Let Die, Roger Moore’s first James Bond film.
From the late 1960s to the late 1980s, Westminster City Council painted much of the street furniture in this area—lamps, railings and signposts—in a distinctive bronze-gold colour. The scheme covered Piccadilly Circus, Regent Street, Oxford Street, Upper Regent Street and Marble Arch, intended to give the West End’s busiest tourist zones a more upmarket, unified look.
The combination of Routemasters, neon hoardings and that characteristic bronze street furniture captures Piccadilly Circus at its classic 1970s peak.
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