Shaftesbury Avenue from Piccadilly Circus, London 1980s
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Shaftesbury Avenue from Piccadilly Circus, London, 1980s. This view looks north-east along Shaftesbury Avenue from Piccadilly Circus, with the road curving away between a mix of older West End frontages and newer commercial buildings. On the left, the giant RKO sign dominates the corner above John Lelliott Ltd, while on the right a large building is wrapped in scaffolding and netting during restoration or rebuilding. The foreground is full of period detail, including a black cab, a Unigate milk float, pedestrians waiting at the crossing, a direction sign for Cambridge Circus, and Westminster’s distinctive bronze-painted lamp columns and traffic lights. It is a strong everyday view of the West End in transition, balancing busy traffic, road signs, shopfronts and building work in one unmistakably central London scene.
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