Piccadilly Circus
About Piccadilly Circus
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.
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In Piccadilly Circus in London, there used to be a giant Ripley's Believe It or Not Museum. It's now this thing called Body World Exhibitions.
from 382: No Such Thing As A Waiter Made Of Potatoes, 2021-07-16 at 00:24:41 · read transcript
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Because at this point, you know, so London got electric tube trains in 1890. It got electric trams 1901, and it got electric buses called electric buses in 1907. They were powered by batteries. If you go on YouTube, there's footage of like, Leicester Square or Piccadilly Circus in like 1908 or something. There are electric buses pothling around. Crazy. We were saying we did a show about suffragettes recently, but you do see these images where suffragettes are on electric scooters.
497: No Such Thing As Oceans Eleven with Puffins, 2023-09-21 · listen
Because at this point, you know, so London got electric tube trains 1890. It got electric trams 1901, and he got electric buses called electro buses in 1907. They were powered by batteries. If you go on YouTube, there's footage of like, Lester Square or Piccadilly Circus in like 1908 or something. There are electric buses. pootling around. Crazy. We were saying we did a show about suffragettes recently, but you do see these images where suffragettes are on electric scooters.
No Such Thing As Oceans Eleven with Puffins, 2023-09-21 · listen
His thing is he's now quite ill. In 2011, he got diagnosed with Parkinson's. So his plan now is that he is going to be turned into one of his bits of art and is going to be in this Piccadilly Circus body world as an exhibition just as part of the display. It's his wife who's going to do it to him and she doesn't want to do it.
382: No Such Thing As A Waiter Made Of Potatoes, 2021-07-16 · listen
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