COVENTRY STREET
Coventry Street is the short road that runs between Leicester Square and Piccadilly Circus. The Swiss Centre clock and glockenspiel in Coventry Street was always a popular meeting point, standing on the north-west corner of Leicester Square. It was demolished in 2008, replaced by the altogether less wholesome M & M’s World. Do these people not realise the queue for sweets in Tesco is much smaller; and there’s more choice? When the Swiss clock isn’t striking, the most striking thing in Coventry Street is the Four Bronze Horses of the Helios on the corner of Haymarket. Well it was, but the horses were corralled and the fountain switched off way before the pandemic. March 2025 update: the fence has been removed and the fountain switched back on ..... The sculpture, by Rudy Weller, is one half of a commission ...