Helios
Helios is a three-metre high bronze, gilded sculpture created by T. B. Huxley-Jones in 1960, located at Television Centre in London, part of the Helios Building, a listed building in White City. The statue was restored and returned to the site in 2017.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Work of art
- Artwork type: statue
- Description: statue in London
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Loftus Road and Wood Lane tube station.
Loftus Road
Stadium
Photo: Randy110912, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Loftus Road, currently known as MATRADE Loftus Road Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium in Shepherd's Bush, West London, Greater London, England, which is home to Queens Park Rangers Football Club, with a capacity of 18,439. Loftus Road is situated 1,400 feet west of Helios.
Wood Lane tube station
Metro station
Wood Lane is a London Underground station in the White City area of west London, United Kingdom. It is on the Circle and Hammersmith & City lines, between Shepherd's Bush Market and Latimer Road stations, and is located in Travelcard Zone 2. Wood Lane tube station is situated 550 feet east of Helios.
Television Centre
Office building
Television Centre, formerly known as BBC Television Centre, is a building complex in White City, West London, which was the headquarters of BBC Television from 1960 to 2013, when BBC Television moved to Broadcasting House.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include White City and Shepherd’s Bush.
White City
Neighborhood
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
White City is a district of London, England, in the northern part of Shepherd's Bush in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, 5 miles west-northwest of Charing Cross.
Shepherd’s Bush
Suburb
Photo: Darqknight47, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Shepherd's Bush is a suburb of West London, England, within the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham 4.9 miles west of Charing Cross, and identified as a major metropolitan centre in the London Plan.
Helios
- Categories: statue and tourism
- Location: Hammersmith and Fulham, Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.50998° or 51° 30′ 36″ northLongitude
-0.22618° or 0° 13′ 34″ westOpen location code
9C3XGQ5F+XGOpenStreetMap ID
node 1425740610OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=artworkOpenStreetMap attribute
artwork_type=statueWikidata ID
Q113026803
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