Marble Arch And Oxford Street During The Coronovirus Lockdown

Early morning looking East along Oxford Street from Marble Arch, on 16th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Normally crowded with people, London is like a ghost town as workers stay home under lockdown during the Coronavirus pandemic. Marble Arch is a 19th-century white marble-faced triumphal arch in London, England. The structure, based on that of the Arch of Constantine in Rome, was designed by John Nash in 1827 to be the state entrance to the cour dhonneur of Buckingham Palace. In 1851, on the initiative of architect and urban planner Decimus Burton, a one-time pupil of John Nash, it was relocated and following the widening of Park Lane in the early 1960s to where it is now sited, incongruently isolated, on a large traffic island at the junction of Oxford Street, Park Lane and Edgware Road.

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Early morning looking East along Oxford Street from Marble Arch, on 16th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Normally crowded with people, London is like a ghost town as workers stay home under lockdown during the Coronavirus pandemic. Marble Arch is a 19th-century white marble-faced triumphal arch in London, England. The structure, based on that of the Arch of Constantine in Rome, was designed by John Nash in 1827 to be the state entrance to the cour dhonneur of Buckingham Palace. In 1851, on the initiative of architect and urban planner Decimus Burton, a one-time pupil of John Nash, it was relocated and following the widening of Park Lane in the early 1960s to where it is now sited, incongruently isolated, on a large traffic island at the junction of Oxford Street, Park Lane and Edgware Road.