"Eros" as it is wrongly known, has been done up as a snow globe to protect it from New Year's revellers.
Lord Shaftesbury, and the Ragged Schools, Shaftesbury Avenue W1, WC2.
Shaftesbury Avenue was named in memory of the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury (1801-1885). The Avenue opened in 1886, and while using the route of existing streets, it entailed the demolition, to the east of here, of some of the appalling slums that Shaftesbury sought to eliminate.
The fountain's statue should really face Shaftesbury Avenue because it is a play on his name, the arrow would land at the start of Shaftesbury Avenue, as in the shaft would bury in the ground at that point.
