15 Fascinating Photos of the Piccadilly Circus Over the Decades

Piccadilly Circus at night, November 1963

The famous lights were switched off during WW2, and since then the Advertising Association had the electric sign displays switched off until 8pm as a tribute to John F Kennedy when he was assassinated in 1963, for the funeral of Winston Churchill in 1965, then again for Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997.