{"id":1,"date":"2020-07-15T22:44:01","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T22:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chilloutlondon.com\/blog\/?p=1"},"modified":"2022-12-23T17:20:43","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T17:20:43","slug":"trafalgar-square-fountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oldsite.c1495594.myzen.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/07\/15\/trafalgar-square-fountains\/","title":{"rendered":"Trafalgar Square Fountains"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Hidden London: Episode 4<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Look carefully around one the fountains in Trafalgar Square and you may spot sharks as well. These replaced earlier designs by Sir Charles Barry, the fountains commemorate World War I naval heroes, Earls Jellicoe and Beattie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Started before World War Il and completed in 1948, the fountains were built to reduce the size of crowds rioting in Trafalgar Square.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fountains can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/earth.google.com\/web\/search\/WC2N+6AA\/@51.507934,-0.12723322,8.5069582a,65.70663418d,35y,91.26710009h,48.11389659t,-0r\/data=CigiJgokCcdSXV88wUlAEdpa44zawElAGQDI5k6K_b-_IYBEUZ3SWsC_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span style=\"color:#0344eb\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/span><\/a> in the centre of Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 5DN. The nearest tube\/underground\/metro stations are Charing Cross, Embankment, Leicester Square and Piccadilly Circus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"528\" height=\"960\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chilloutlondon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Trafalgar_Sq_Fountains2.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"293\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/www.chilloutlondon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Trafalgar_Sq_Fountains2.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.chilloutlondon.com\/blog\/the-new-umoma-opens-its-doors-2\/trafalgar_sq_fountains2\/\" class=\"wp-image-293\" 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https:\/\/oldsite.c1495594.myzen.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Trafalgar_Sq_Fountains1-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chilloutlondon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Trafalgar_Sq_Fountains4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oldsite.c1495594.myzen.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Trafalgar_Sq_Fountains4.jpg 960w, https:\/\/oldsite.c1495594.myzen.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Trafalgar_Sq_Fountains4-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oldsite.c1495594.myzen.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Trafalgar_Sq_Fountains4-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hidden London: Episode 4 Look carefully around one the fountains in Trafalgar Square and you may spot sharks as well. These replaced earlier designs by Sir Charles Barry, the fountains commemorate World War I naval heroes, Earls Jellicoe and Beattie. Started before World War Il and completed in 1948, the fountains were built to reduce<span class=\"excerpt-ellipsis\">&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/oldsite.c1495594.myzen.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/07\/15\/trafalgar-square-fountains\/\" itemprop=\"url\">Continue<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":293,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quirky"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldsite.c1495594.myzen.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldsite.c1495594.myzen.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldsite.c1495594.myzen.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldsite.c1495594.myzen.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldsite.c1495594.myzen.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/oldsite.c1495594.myzen.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":499,"href":"https:\/\/oldsite.c1495594.myzen.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldsite.c1495594.myzen.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldsite.c1495594.myzen.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldsite.c1495594.myzen.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldsite.c1495594.myzen.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldsite.c1495594.myzen.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}