WELCOME RETORN OF POPULAR STATUE TO PICCADILLY CIRCUS
(N.Z.P.A Special Corretspundent..) (Rec. 10 a.m.) LONDON, June 28. Next Saturday will be quite an occasion for Londoners. The statue of Eros is to be hoisted on to its old plinth in Piccadilly Circus. „ There will be formal speeches by Sir Alfred Munnings, president of the Royal Academy, and Lord Lathan, leader of the London County Council, and these are expected to be followed by many informal celebrations. The statue of Eros, which was removed for safe keeping in 1939, just after the outbreak of war, has a special place in the affections of Londoners, and in recent months there have been insistent proddings of the powers that be that it should be replaced. This is the second time the public demanded Eros should be returned. It was first erected in the ’nineties as a memorial to the Earl of Shaftesbury, and remained there until 1925, when the Piccadilly tube station was enlarged. It was not replaced until 1931, following a Press campaign inquiring what hadf become of it* It also had a shorter absence in 1932, after being damaged in hectic New Year celebrations.
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Evening Star, Issue 26138, 27 June 1947, Page 5
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193WELCOME RETORN OF POPULAR STATUE TO PICCADILLY CIRCUS Evening Star, Issue 26138, 27 June 1947, Page 5
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