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PICCADILLY READORNED.
LONDON, Monday.
Mr Alfred Gilbert’s aluminium statue of Eros was re-erected in'Piccadilly Circus at- midnight. Eros was removed in 1925 during the reconstruction of an underground station. It has been cleaned and now gleams in silvery beauty.
(This message refers to Mr Gilbert’s well-known Shaftesbury memorial fountain, topped with a fine statue of Eros, which was completed and unveiled m Piccadilly Circus in 1893. In 1920 the monument was' removed to enable work to be begun on a new Tube junction; and, since the completion of this, a'controversy has been waged over the question as to whether or not the monument should be replaced in its original position. The figure of Etos is ten feet high, and Gilbert chose aluminium m place of bronze in the belief that this material would not suffer discolouration in the London atmosphere.)
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 29 December 1931, Page 5
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