Eros

This statue is always very popular with the tourists, you can pass by at any time and there are people standing around taking pictures or sitting on the steps. It isn’t one of the most beautiful statues you will ever see but it is a real «postcard «landmark.

They say if you sit on the steps of Eros at Piccadilly Circus then eventually everyone you know will pass by. hard to believe I know.
I have sat there on and off since I was a child. even eaten breakfast there. Many happy times and memories.
Whilst wandering through London and taking in the visual delights that confront the human eye everywhere, remember to take in Piccadilly Circus.
Why well maybe because the statue that sits centre stage and looks quite bizarre commemorates the great Victorian Philanthropist Lord Shaftesbury.
It actually represents not ‘Eros the God’, but the ‘Angel of Christian Charity’. And who better to honour than Shaftesbury I mean at 84 years of age and on his death bed he did lament’I cannot bear to leave the world with all the misery in it.’