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Vid of the scene for Q's Red Bus London Pic.
https://youtu.be/kimhVcvI7gM
Various images to illustrate the location of that photo. This is the scene at which the KFC was replaced by a Shake Shack. Kept the white shop front facade.
Q's pic of a shiny double-decker Red Bus in London, UK, seems designed to draw attention to reflection(s) of a White facade at a bus stand in the vicinity of Communications House and the playhouse featuring The Book of Mormon.
Demolition and construction began 23-MAR-2014, shortly after the Red Bus pic was taken. Communications House was gutted while its facade was preserved. Beneath its ground floor is a huge power station. The bus stand was (and continues to be) used by a bus tour which stops here for both boarding and alighting of customers, drivers, and guides (conductors). Just prior to construction, the bus stop flag was changed and that dates Q's pic to no earlier than 29-OCT-2013 when that change was approved.
Prominently featured in Q's Red Bus pic is its shiny surface which reflects the building behind the camera. That camera may well have been in the hands of a field asset or it might have been a security camera affixed to the wall of one of the two ground floor shop fronts. The double-decker is an old Routemaster (Lengthened, or RML) which operated with a driver upfront and a conductor at the rear open platform. The bus in Q's pic was likely a private hire, because RMLs were no longer serviced this part of Coventry Street by 2013-2014.
In this video, a March 2015 tour is used as an example of a bus on this route that circumvents Central London via Piccadilly Circus (also featured in Q pics of London) and Trafalgar Square (likewise featured in Q pics). Here, on a sunny day, only the tailend of the route is used as it showcases the scene of Q's Red Bus pic.
Besides illustrating the details that help date Q's pic and which hint at the significance of this particular pic in the context of the rest of the series of Q's London Pics, the goal is to bring alive the still photos through a spot of minor editing trickery.
Sauces:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kimhVcvI7gM
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.5104646,-0.1315131,3a,90y,266.1h,88.45t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1seU9endy7OX7wc07oic5Ltw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LokKvR2-LUU&t=48s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98N1145ZOfY
https://www.buildington.co.uk/london-wc2/48-leicester-square/communications-house/id/4027
http://wikimapia.org/10962957/Communications-House
https://www.watermangroup.com/news/49-leicester-square-gets-green-light/
https://www.alamy.com/london-uk-23rd-march-2014-demolition-starts-on-the-communications-image67878940.html?p=176155&srch=foo%3dbar%26st%3d0%26pn%3d1%26ps%3d100%26sortby%3d2%26resultview%3dsortbyPopular%26npgs%3d0%26qt%3dleicester%2520square%2520london%2520restaurants%26qt_raw%3dleicester%2520square%2520london%2520restaurants%26lic%3d3%26mr%3d0%26pr%3d0%26ot%3d0%26creative%3d%26ag%3d0%26hc%3d0%26pc%3d%26blackwhite%3d%26cutout%3d%26tbar%3d1%26et%3d0x000000000000000000000%26vp%3d0%26loc%3d0%26imgt%3d0%26dtfr%3d%26dtto%3d%26size%3d0xFF%26archive%3d1%26groupid%3d%26pseudoid%3d%26a%3d%26cdid%3d%26cdsrt%3d%26name%3d%26qn%3d%26apalib%3d%26apalic%3d%26lightbox%3d%26gname%3d%26gtype%3d%26xstx%3d0%26simid%3d%26saveQry%3d%26editorial%3d1%26nu%3d%26t%3d%26edoptin%3d%26customgeoip%3d%26cap%3d1%26cbstore%3d1%26vd%3d0%26lb%3d%26fi%3d2%26edrf%3d%26ispremium%3d1%26flip%3d0%26pl%3d