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Piccadilly Circus to Waterloo Station

Piccadilly Circus Station: The beating heart of London’s West End. These famous neon signs first lit up in 1908, when Perrier put up the very first illuminated advert here. Even today, they’re often called London’s answer to Times Square. Haymarket towards Trafalgar Square: As I head south along Haymarket, I’m walking through London’s theatreland. The street was once famous for selling hay to feed horses hence the name — long before it became home to grand theatres. Trafalgar Square: Built in 1844 as a celebration of Admiral Nelson’s victory over the French and Spanish fleets at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. Nelson’s Column rises 52 metres high, guarded by those majestic bronze lions, added later in 1867 and fun fact: they were sculpted by Sir Edwin Landseer, who used a dead lion from the London Zoo as his model!” Towards Hungerford Bridge: First opened in 1845 as a suspension bridge designed by the great engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Today, the railway runs in the middle, and on both sides are the Golden Jubilee footbridges, added in 2002 to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s 50 years on the throne. The London Eye: Originally called the Millennium Wheel was completed in 1999 and opened to the public in 2000 to mark the new millennium. It stands 135 metres tall, once the tallest observation wheel in the world. Each capsule represents a London borough — but there’s no number 13, a small superstition built right into its design. Cross the bridge toward Waterloo Station: South Bank, this view never gets old — Big Ben, the Palace of Westminster, and the flowing Thames below. The area ahead — the South Bank — was once marshland. Waterloo Station itself opened in 1848, named after Britain’s victory over Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo. It’s now one of Europe’s busiest train stations, with over 90 million passengers a year.