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Hamleys of London Limited, trading as Hamleys, is a British multinational toy retailer, owned by Reliance Retail. Listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's oldest toy store, it was founded by William Hamley as "Noah's Ark" in High Holborn, London, in 1760. It moved to its current site on Regent Street in London's West End in 1881 ...
English: London : Westminster - Hamleys Toy Shop Hamleys on Regent St from the top floor of the shop looking towards a spinning disk which says it's celebrating its 250th birthday this year. Date 4 March 2010
Myrtle Avenue is a street in Hatton in the London Borough of Hounslow which is near the eastern end of Heathrow Airport's south runway, 27L. [1] The street is noisy when aircraft are landing or taking off from 27L, or taking off from 9R, though its view of the aircraft has made it the prime location for plane spotting. [2]
In 1834, in London's East End, he established a wholesale grocery in Stepney at 4 Cable Street with a special interest in tea. [13] Attempting to capitalise on trade during the Great Exhibition of 1851 in nearby Hyde Park , in 1849 Harrod took over a small shop in the district of Brompton , on the site of the current store. [ 14 ]
Liberty, commonly known as Liberty's, is a luxury department store in London, England.It is located on Great Marlborough Street in the West End of London.The building spans from Carnaby Street on the East to Kingly Street on the West, where it forms a three storey archway over the Northern entrance to the Kingly Street mall that houses the Liberty Clock in its centre.
The London Borough of Tower Hamlets is a borough in London, England.Situated on the north bank of the River Thames and immediately east of the City of London, the borough spans much of the traditional East End of London and includes much of the regenerated London Docklands area.
Regent Street was one of the first planned developments of London. An ordered structure of London streets, replacing the mediaeval layout, had been planned since just after the Great Fire of London (1666) when Sir Christopher Wren and John Evelyn drew plans for rebuilding the city on the classical formal model. After a lack of progress, houses ...
One New Change is a major office and retail development in the City of London. [1] It comprises 560,000 square feet (52,000 m 2) of floor space, including 220,000 square feet (20,000 m 2) of retail space and 330,000 square feet (31,000 m 2) of office space [2] and is the only large shopping centre in the City of London, the historic nucleus and modern financial centre of London.