Walking back to his hotel, Mr Monkey walked through Seven Dials. He admired the column with seven clocks which marks where seven streets meet. This is a replacement for the original column which was demolished in 1773 in the belief that someone had hidden a lot of money under it. In the nineteenth century, Seven Dials was notorious for the number of criminals that lived there, but this was solved by knocking a lot of it down to create Charing Cross Road and Shaftesbury Avenue.
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