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Location Profile: TRAFALGAR SQUARE Including Northumberland Avenue |
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The area around Charing Cross seems to contain an awful lot of locations that also appear on the Monopoly game board with Charing Cross Station, Northumberland Avenue, Strand and Trafalgar Square. |  |
| The most famous feature of course is the huge Nelson's
Column in the centre along with its accompanying fountains and four guarding lions. The Square is frequently used as a gathering place for concerts, rallies and protest marches by anyone with an axe to grind and an agenda to promote. |
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The north side of the square is dominated by the impressive
National Gallery seen here on the left. Originally surrounded by roads, the north side here was pedestrianised recently making it a much nicer location for tourists although the traffic flow is now somewhat more complicated and the pigeons were all but ejected as well! |
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| Another one of those Monopoly locations is Northumberland Avenue, however it appears to play host to a number of majestic buildings that are either clad in scaffolding or boarded up. | |
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| Northumberland Avenue seems to be now a rather
unimpressive side street these days that links Trafalgar Square directly to the Golden
Jubilee Footbridge at Victoria Embankment (Above left) It does however feature an original Taxi Drivers Hut (Above right) at the Embankment end. |
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