Piccadilly - Green Park webcam
Piccadilly runs along the northern edge of The Green Park. This is a street view by the park, rather than a camera inside it or a verified view of Buckingham Palace.
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Source, capture time and playback
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Other useful views
- Piccadilly Circus · West End
- Shaftesbury Avenue · West End
- Piccadilly - Ritz Hotel · West End
These are alternative camera locations; changing angles can show different scenes.
The setting behind the frame
This is the Piccadilly setting beside Green Park. Any park edge or landmark remains a question for the available frame, rather than a guarantee from the camera’s position.
What happened here
11 dated events from this place and the surrounding neighbourhood. Each entry names where it happened and links to the supporting record.
Some sources establish only a year or a period; those dates are kept at that precision. Nearby events are not presented as events in the camera’s view.
- War and conflict
Green Park’s earliest record recalls Wyatt’s rebellion
Nearby · Green Park
The Royal Parks traces the site’s earliest record to 1554, when Sir Thomas Wyatt rebelled against Mary I’s proposed marriage to Philip of Spain. The area was then meadowland.
Source: The Royal Parks, Green Park FAQs
- Royal occasions
Charles II encloses a royal deer park
Nearby · Green Park
Charles II enclosed the ground with a brick wall, stocked it with deer and called it Upper St James’s Park. The enclosed park later became Green Park.
Source: Historic England, Green Park
- Public life
Fireworks temple explodes during royal celebration
Nearby · Green Park
A royal fireworks display in Green Park ended in disaster when the Temple of Peace exploded after thousands of fireworks ignited in quick succession. The Royal Parks records that three people died.
- Royal occasions
Grand Jubilee brings peace celebrations to Green Park
Nearby · Green Park
Green Park’s temporary Temple of Concord formed a centrepiece of the Grand Jubilee festivities, celebrating peace with France and the centenary of Hanoverian rule.
Sources: UK Parliament Heritage Collections, contemporary Temple of Concord fireworks print · Historic England, Green Park
- Buildings and transport
Wellington Arch is built at Hyde Park Corner
Nearby · Wellington Arch, Hyde Park Corner
Decimus Burton’s triumphal arch was built as a grand outer entrance to Buckingham Palace under George IV. It originally faced the Hyde Park Screen.
- Public life
Green Park opens to the public
Nearby · Green Park
Green Park opened to the general public in 1826. Increased visitor numbers led to comprehensive landscaping suited to public recreation during the nineteenth century.
Source: Historic England, Green Park
- Crime and remembrance
Queen Victoria survives an attempted shooting
Nearby · Constitution Hill
As Queen Victoria travelled from Buckingham Palace toward the park, a gunman fired twice at her carriage. She and Prince Albert were unharmed; Constitution Hill became the setting for further attempts in the 1840s.
Sources: UK Parliament, Hansard, 11 June 1840 · The Royal Parks, Constitution Hill
- Public life
Wellington Arch moves to its present site
Nearby · Wellington Arch, Hyde Park Corner
Traffic improvements at Hyde Park Corner led to the arch being dismantled and rebuilt a short distance south-east, facing Constitution Hill. Rebuilding was complete by about 1885.
Sources: English Heritage, History of Wellington Arch · English Heritage, Description of Wellington Arch
- War and conflict
Canada Memorial honours wartime service
Nearby · Canada Memorial, Green Park
Queen Elizabeth II unveiled the Canada Memorial in Green Park. It commemorates the million Canadians who served with British forces in the two world wars.
- War and conflict
Memorial Gates honour Commonwealth service
Nearby · Memorial Gates, Constitution Hill
Queen Elizabeth II inaugurated the Memorial Gates at Constitution Hill. They commemorate service and sacrifice by people from the Indian subcontinent, Africa and the Caribbean in the two world wars.
- War and conflict
Bomber Command Memorial opens
Nearby · Bomber Command Memorial, Green Park
The Bomber Command Memorial was installed in Green Park to remember the aircrew who died serving in Bomber Command during the Second World War.
Reading for this location
- Landmark contextThe Green Park: a royal park beside Piccadilly →
- Neighbourhood contextPiccadilly cameras: choosing between three views →
- A way to read the viewLondon parks at street level: choosing a park-edge view →
Location, source and frame limits
- Area
- West End
- Source junction
- Piccadilly/Whitehorse St
- Image and clip
- Configured TfL still and short clip
- Capture time
- Not independently verified from a successful image or video load
- Provider
- Transport for London · source details
- Viewing direction
- Not verified from the source position alone
- Source position
- 51.50540, -0.14559 · TfL camera catalogue ↗
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Before you settle in
Is this a continuous live stream?
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Will this camera always show Piccadilly?
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Can the miniature show current conditions?
No. It is an illustrated model with invented scale and geometry. Its lighting controls change the model’s appearance, not the camera image or London’s weather.