London: A City of Transformation

London's iconic double-decker buses used to be horse-drawn carriages carrying just twelve passengers.

Today they transport millions across the city daily. Oxford Street was once a Roman road

leading to executions at Tyburn, now it's home to over three hundred shops making it

Europe's busiest shopping district. Covent Garden transformed from a actual vegetable market where Eliza

Doolittle sold flowers into a luxury shopping haven with street performers and boutique stores.

The Thames was so polluted in eighteen fifty eight they called it the Great Stink,

forcing Parliament to flee. Now it's crystal clear with dolphins spotted swimming

upstream. Piccadilly Circus got its name from fancy collars called piccadills sold