page_title: City of Westminster
section_title: Landmarks
hierarchical_section_title: City of Westminster / Landmarks
caption_attribution_description: Coca-Cola has had a sign at Piccadilly Circus since 1956. Hyundai Motors sign is the newest of the six, launching on 29 September 2011. It replaced a sign for Sanyo which had occupied the space unchanged since 1987, the last to be run by traditional neon lights rather than Hyundai's computerised LED screen. Earlier Sanyo signs with older logos had occupied the position since 1978, although these were only half the size of the current space. TDK added its sign in 1990, the space having been previously used by Schweppes (1920-61), BP (1961-7), Cinzano (1967-78), Fujifilm (1978-86) and Kodak (1986-90). The original neon sign remained almost unchanged for twenty years, although in 2001, the colour of the background lamps was changed from green to blue, and the words "Audio &amp; Video Tape" and "Floppy Disks" under the TDK logo were removed. In 2010, the sign was replaced by an LED screen. McDonald's added its sign in 1987, replacing one for BASF. The sign was changed from neon to LED in 2001. A bigger, brighter screen was installed in 2008. Samsung added its sign in November 1994, the space having been previously occupied by Canon (1978-84) and Panasonic (1984-94). The sign was changed from neon to LED in summer 2005. The screen was upgraded and improved in autumn 2011. Ref: &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piccadilly_Circus" rel="nofollow"&gt;en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piccadilly_Circus&lt;/a&gt; GPS geotags: Shaftesbury Avenue, A401, Chinatown, London, City of Westminster, England, UK Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II Lens: Voigtlander Color Skopar 20mm f/3.5 SL-II Aspherical Manual Focus Lens Focal Length: 20 mm Exposure: ¹⁄₈₀ sec at f/6.3 ISO: 320 Published: &lt;a href="http://www.revistaentrelineas.es/28/sites/default/files/pdfs/Completo/ENTRELINEAS28.pdf" rel="nofollow"&gt;www.revistaentrelineas.es/28/sites/default/files/pdfs/Com...&lt;/a&gt;, page 52 &lt;a href="http://dailyfusion.net/2013/09/innovative-high-performance-led-driver-to-improve-energy-efficiency-19448/" rel="nofollow"&gt;dailyfusion.net/2013/09/innovative-high-performance-led-d...&lt;/a&gt;.
context_page_description: The City of Westminster is in London and is an Inner London borough that holds city status. For centuries, it has been the location of the national government. It occupies much of the central area of Greater London including most of the West End. Historically in Middlesex, it is immediately to the west of the older City of London, directly to the east of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, and its southern boundary is the River Thames. The London borough was created with the 1965 establishment of Greater London. Upon its creation, it inherited the city status previously held by the smaller Metropolitan Borough of Westminster from 1900, which was first awarded to Westminster in 1540.
  Aside from numerous large parks and open spaces, the population density of the district is high. Many sites commonly associated with London are in the borough, including St James's Palace, Buckingham Palace, the Palace of Westminster, Whitehall, 10 Downing Street, and Trafalgar Square.
context_section_description: The City of Westminster contains the some of the most famous sites in London, including Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey,  the Palace of Westminster (Houses of Parliament) and Big Ben.
caption: Piccadilly Circus
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