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Oxford Street is mentioned in several Charles Dickens novels. In A Tale of Two Cities, as Oxford Road, it is described as having "very few buildings", though it was heavily built up by the late 18th century. It is also mentioned in Sketches by Boz and Bleak House. [130] Oxford Street is one of the London poet Letitia Elizabeth Landon's Scenes ...
Oxford Street was the first to switch on its Christmas lights in London, officially beginning the countdown to the big day. Thousands of brilliant white stars blanket the sky, and the view dazzled ...
Oxford Circus is a road junction connecting Oxford Street and Regent Street in the West End of London.It is also the entrance to Oxford Circus tube station.. The junction opened in 1819 as part of the Regent Street development under John Nash, and was originally known as Regent Circus North.
London’s famed Oxford Street could finally be pedestrianized, according to new plans announced by city mayor Sadiq Khan on Tuesday, following years of debate about how to revitalize the area.
St Giles Circus seen from Centre Point prior to the start of Crossrail work, May 2007. St Giles Circus is a road junction in the St Giles district of the West End of London at the eastern end of Oxford Street, where it connects with New Oxford Street, Charing Cross Road and Tottenham Court Road, which it is more often referred to owing to the location of Tottenham Court Road Underground ...
Pro-Palestinian protesters have marched on London’s Oxford Street, urging Christmas shoppers to boycott “Israeli-linked” brands. A few hundred brought traffic to a standstill as part of the ...
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The Oxford Street facade. The Pantheon was promoted by Philip Elias Turst, of whose life very little else is known. In 1769 he inherited a plot of land which had a frontage of 54 feet (16 m) on Oxford Street and contained two houses, behind which there was a large piece of ground enclosed by the gardens of houses in Great Marlborough Street, Poland Street and Oxford Street.