Oxford Street, the Glossary

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1. 239 relations: A Tale of Two Cities, A40 road, Acker Bilk, Arcadia Group, Argand lamp, Assassination of John F. Kennedy, Associated Independent Recording, Bakerloo line, Bayswater Road, Bazaar, BBC News, Bear-baiting, Benjamin Baker (engineer), Bleak House, Bob Geldof, Bond Street, Bond Street station, Booby trap, Boris Johnson, Bourne & Hollingsworth, Brecon, Brent Cross Shopping Centre, British Home Stores, British Museum, British rock music, Bus lane, Buses in London, Buzzcocks, C&A, Calleva Atrebatum, Camulodunum, Cavendish Square, Central line (London Underground), Central London, Centre Point, Chain store, Charing Cross Road, Charles Dickens, Charles Holden, Cheltenham, Chris Barber, Christian mission, Christmas tree, City block, City of Westminster, Closed-circuit television, Colchester, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Covent Garden, COVID-19 pandemic, ... Expand index (189 more) »

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A Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel published in 1859 by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution.

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A40 road

The A40 is a trunk road which runs between London and Goodwick (Fishguard), Wales, and officially called The London to Fishguard Trunk Road (A40) in all legal documents and Acts.

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Acker Bilk

Bernard Stanley "Acker" Bilk, (28 January 1929 – 2 November 2014) was an English clarinetist and vocalist known for his breathy, vibrato-rich, lower-register style, and distinctive appearance – of goatee, bowler hat and striped waistcoat.

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Arcadia Group

Arcadia Group Ltd (formerly Arcadia Group plc and, until 1998, Burton Group plc) was a British multinational retailing company headquartered in London, England.

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Argand lamp

The Argand lamp is a type of oil lamp invented in 1780 by Aimé Argand.

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Assassination of John F. Kennedy

On November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was assassinated while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas.

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Associated Independent Recording

Associated Independent Recording (AIR) is an independent recording company founded in London in 1965 by record producers George Martin, John Burgess, Ron Richards, and Peter Sullivan.

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Bakerloo line

The Bakerloo line is a London Underground line that runs from in suburban north-west London to in south London, via the West End.

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Bayswater Road

Bayswater Road is the main road running along the northern edge of Hyde Park in London.

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Bazaar

A bazaar or souk is a marketplace consisting of multiple small stalls or shops, especially in the Middle East, the Balkans, North Africa and South Asia.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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Bear-baiting

Bear-baiting is a blood sport in which a chained bear and one or more dogs are forced to fight one another.

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Benjamin Baker (engineer)

Sir Benjamin Baker (31 March 1840 – 19 May 1907) was an English civil engineer who worked in mid to late Victorian era.

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Bleak House

Bleak House is a novel by Charles Dickens, first published as a 20-episode serial between 12 March 1852 and 12 September 1853.

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Bob Geldof

Robert Frederick Zenon Geldof (born 5 October 1951) is an Irish singer-songwriter and political activist.

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Bond Street

Bond Street in the West End of London links Piccadilly in the south to Oxford Street in the north. Oxford Street and Bond Street are shopping streets in London.

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Bond Street station

Bond Street is an interchange station in Mayfair, in the West End of London for London Underground and Elizabeth line services.

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Booby trap

A booby trap is a device or setup that is intended to kill, harm or surprise a human or another animal.

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Boris Johnson

Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (born 19 June 1964) is a British politician and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2019 to 2022.

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Bourne & Hollingsworth

Bourne & Hollingsworth, known also in its latter days as Bournes was a large department store on the corner of Oxford Street and Berners Street.

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Brecon

Brecon (Aberhonddu), archaically known as Brecknock, is a market town in Powys, mid Wales.

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Brent Cross Shopping Centre is a large shopping centre in Hendon, north London, owned by Hammerson and Abrdn.

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British Home Stores

British Home Stores, commonly abbreviated to BHS and latterly legally styled BHS Ltd, was a British department store chain, primarily selling clothing and household items.

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British Museum

The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London.

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British rock music

British rock describes a wide variety of forms of music made in the United Kingdom.

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Bus lane

A bus lane or bus-only lane is a lane restricted to buses, often on certain days and times, and generally used to speed up public transport that would be otherwise held up by traffic congestion.

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Buses in London

Buses have been used as a mode of public transport in London since 1829, when George Shillibeer started operating a horse-drawn omnibus service from Paddington to the City of London.

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Buzzcocks

Buzzcocks are an English punk rock band that singer-songwriter-guitarist Pete Shelley and singer-songwriter Howard Devoto formed in Bolton in 1976.

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C&A

C&A is a multinational chain of retail clothing stores that originated in the Netherlands.

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Calleva Atrebatum

Calleva Atrebatum ("Calleva of the Atrebates") was an Iron Age oppidum, the capital of the Atrebates tribe.

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Camulodunum

Camulodunum (camvlodvnvm), the Ancient Roman name for what is now Colchester in Essex, was an important castrum and city in Roman Britain, and the first capital of the province.

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Cavendish Square

Cavendish Square is a public garden square in Marylebone in the West End of London.

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Central line (London Underground)

The Central line is a London Underground line that runs through central London, from, Essex, in the north-east to and in west London.

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Central London

Central London is the innermost part of London, in England, spanning the City of London and several boroughs.

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Centre Point

Centre Point is a building in Central London, comprising a 34-storey tower; a 9-storey block to the east including shops, offices, retail units and maisonettes; and a linking block between the two at first-floor level.

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Chain store

A chain store or retail chain is a retail outlet in which several locations share a brand, central management and standardized business practices.

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Charing Cross Road

Charing Cross Road is a street in central London running immediately north of St Martin-in-the-Fields to St Giles Circus (the intersection with Oxford Street), which then merges into Tottenham Court Road.

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic.

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Charles Holden

Charles Henry Holden (12 May 1875 – 1 May 1960) was an English architect best known for designing many London Underground stations during the 1920s and 1930s, the Underground Electric Railways Company of London's headquarters at 55 Broadway, for the University of London's Senate House and for Bristol Central Library.

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Cheltenham

Cheltenham is a spa town and borough on the edge of the Cotswolds in Gloucestershire, England.

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Chris Barber

Donald Christopher Barber (17 April 1930 – 2 March 2021) was an English jazz musician, best known as a bandleader and trombonist.

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Christian mission

A Christian mission is an organized effort to carry on evangelism or other activities, such as educational or hospital work, in the name of the Christian faith.

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Christmas tree

A Christmas tree is a decorated tree, usually an evergreen conifer, such as a spruce, pine or fir, or an artificial tree of similar appearance, associated with the celebration of Christmas.

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City block

A city block, residential block, urban block, or simply block is a central element of urban planning and urban design.

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City of Westminster

The City of Westminster is a London borough with city status in Greater London, England.

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Closed-circuit television

Closed-circuit television (CCTV), also known as video surveillance, is the use of closed-circuit television cameras to transmit a signal to a specific place, on a limited set of monitors.

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Colchester

Colchester is a city in northeastern Essex, England.

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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) is an autobiographical account written by Thomas De Quincey, about his laudanum addiction and its effect on his life.

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Covent Garden

Covent Garden is a district in London, on the eastern fringes of the West End, between St Martin's Lane and Drury Lane.

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COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.

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D H Evans

D H Evans was a department store located in Oxford Street, London, England, which later became part of House of Fraser.

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D. H. Burnham & Company

D.H. Burnham and Company was an architecture firm based in Chicago, Illinois.

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Debenhams

Debenhams plc was a British department store chain operating in the United Kingdom, Denmark and the Republic of Ireland, and is still operating as a franchise in seven Middle East countries.

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Demo (music)

A demo (shortened from "demonstration") is a song or group of songs typically recorded for limited circulation or for reference use, rather than for general public release.

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Department store

A department store is a retail establishment offering a wide range of consumer goods in different areas of the store, each area ("department") specializing in a product category.

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Dornier Flugzeugwerke

Dornier Flugzeugwerke was a German aircraft manufacturer founded in Friedrichshafen in 1914 by Claude Dornier.

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Duke Street, Marylebone

Duke Street is a street crossing the western half of Oxford Street, London and connecting Wigmore Street and Grosvenor Square.

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Edward Elgar

Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, (2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire.

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Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer

Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer (2 June 1689 – 16 June 1741) was an English Tory politician and peer who sat in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1711 to 1724.

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Edward VII

Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910.

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Elizabeth line

The Elizabeth line is a high-frequency hybrid urban–suburban rail service in London and its suburbs.

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Essex

Essex is a ceremonial county in the East of England, and one of the home counties.

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Estate in land

An estate in land is, in the law of England and Wales, an interest in real property that is or may become possessory.

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Executioner

An executioner, also known as a hangman or headsman, is an official who effects a sentence of capital punishment on a condemned person.

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Festival of Britain

The Festival of Britain was a national exhibition and fair that reached millions of visitors throughout the United Kingdom in the summer of 1951.

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Fishguard

Fishguard (Abergwaun, meaning "Mouth of the River Gwaun") is a coastal town in Pembrokeshire, Wales, with a population of 3,400 (rounded to the nearest 100) as of the 2021 census.

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Fitzrovia

Fitzrovia is a district of central London, England, near the West End.

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Francis Lorne

Francis Lorne (30 March 1889, Falkirk – June 1963 Harare) was a Scottish architect and partner of the prominent Sir John Burnet, Tait & Lorne architectural firm.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882April 12, 1945), commonly known by his initials FDR, was an American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.

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Front organization

A front organization is any entity set up by and controlled by another organization, such as intelligence agencies, organized crime groups, terrorist organizations, secret societies, banned organizations, religious or political groups, advocacy groups, or corporations.

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Gallows

A gallows (or less precisely scaffold) is a frame or elevated beam, typically wooden, from which objects can be suspended or "weighed".

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George Orwell

Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950) was a British novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell, a name inspired by his favourite place River Orwell.

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Gillows of Lancaster and London

Gillows of Lancaster and London, also known as Gillow & Co., was an English furniture making firm based in Lancaster, Lancashire, and in London.

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Glenn Miller

Alton Glen "Glenn" Miller (March 1, 1904; disappeared December 15, 1944; declared dead December 16, 1945) was an American big band conductor, arranger, composer, trombone player, and recording artist before and during World War II, when he was an officer in the US Army Air Forces.

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GlobalData

GlobalData Plc is a data analytics and consulting company, headquartered in London, England.

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Google Maps

Google Maps is a web mapping platform and consumer application offered by Google.

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Great Portland Street

Great Portland Street is a road in the West End of London which links Oxford Street with the A501 Marylebone Road.

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Grosvenor Group

Grosvenor Group Limited is an internationally diversified property group, which traces its origins to 1677 and has its headquarters in London, England.

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Hampshire

Hampshire (abbreviated to Hants.) is a ceremonial county in South East England.

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Hanging

Hanging is killing a person by suspending them from the neck with a noose or ligature.

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Hansard

Hansard is the transcripts of parliamentary debates in Britain and many Commonwealth countries.

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Harry Hyams

Harry John Hyams (2 January 1928 – 19 December 2015) was a British millionaire who initially made his money as a speculative property developer.

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Haverfordwest

Haverfordwest (Hwlffordd) is the county town of Pembrokeshire, Wales, and the most populous urban area in Pembrokeshire with a population of 14,596 in 2011.

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Heinkel He 111

The Heinkel He 111 is a German airliner and bomber designed by Siegfried and Walter Günter at Heinkel Flugzeugwerke in 1934.

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Henry Percy Adams

Henry Percy Adams (26 October 1865 – 7 April 1930), born Harry Percy Adams, and known professionally as H. Percy Adams, was an Ipswich-born English architect, and fellow of RIBA.

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Henry Tanner (architect)

Sir Henry Tanner (1849–1935) was a prominent British architect during the late 19th and early 20th century, working for HM Office of Works.

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High Holborn

High Holborn is a street in Holborn and Farringdon Without, Central London, which forms a part of the A40 route from London to Fishguard.

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HMV

HMV is a music and entertainment retailer, founded in the United Kingdom in 1921.

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Holding company

A holding company is a company whose primary business is holding a controlling interest in the securities of other companies.

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Holland Park Avenue

Holland Park Avenue is a street located in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, in west central London. Oxford Street and Holland Park Avenue are shopping streets in London.

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Holles Street

Holles Street is a street in Marylebone in the City of Westminster in central London that runs from the south side of Cavendish Square to Oxford Street.

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Horace Jones (architect)

Sir Horace Jones (20 May 1819 – 21 May 1887) was an English architect particularly noted for his work as architect and surveyor to the City of London from 1864 until his death.

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House of Fraser

House of Fraser and Frasers are a British department store chain with 25 locations across the United Kingdom and 2 in Ireland, part of Frasers Group.

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Howard de Walden Estate

The Howard de Walden Estate is a property estate in Marylebone, London, owned by the Howard de Walden family.

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Human billboard

A human billboard is someone who applies an advertisement on their person.

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Humphrey Lyttelton

Humphrey Richard Adeane Lyttelton (23 May 1921 – 25 April 2008), also known as Humph, was an English jazz musician and broadcaster from the Lyttelton family.

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IKEA

Inter IKEA Systems B.V., trading as IKEA, is a Swedish multinational conglomerate that designs and sells, kitchen appliances, decoration, home accessories, and various other goods and home services.

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Irish Republican Army

The Irish Republican Army (IRA) is a name used by various resistance organisations in Ireland throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.

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J. Lyons and Co.

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James Pennethorne

Sir James Pennethorne (4 June 1801 – 1 September 1871) was a British architect and planner, particularly associated with buildings and parks in central London.

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John Bentinck, 5th Duke of Portland

William John Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 5th Duke of Portland (17 September 1800 – 6 December 1879), styled Lord John Bentinck before 1824 and Marquess of Titchfield between 1824 and 1854, was a British Army officer and peer, most remembered for his eccentric behaviour.

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John James Burnet

Sir John James Burnet (31 May 1857 – 2 July 1938) was a Scottish Edwardian architect who was noted for a number of prominent buildings in Glasgow and London.

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John Lewis & Partners

John Lewis & Partners (formerly and commonly known as John Lewis) is a British brand of high-end department stores operating throughout the United Kingdom, with concessions also located in Ireland.

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John Lewis Partnership

The John Lewis Partnership plc (JLP) is a British company that operates John Lewis & Partners department stores, Waitrose supermarkets, its banking and financial services, and other retail-related activities.

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John Nash (architect)

John Nash (18 January 1752 – 13 May 1835) was one of the foremost British architects of the Georgian and Regency eras, during which he was responsible for the design, in the neoclassical and picturesque styles, of many important areas of London.

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John Prince's Street

John Prince's Street, also Princes Street, is a street in Marylebone in the City of Westminster in central London that runs from Margaret Street in the north to Oxford Street in the south.

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John Rocque's maps of London

In 1746, the French-born British surveyor and cartographer John Rocque produced two maps of London and the surrounding area.

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Joseph Emberton

Joseph Emberton (23 December 1889 – 20 November 1956) was an English architect of the early modernist period.

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Jubilee line

The Jubilee line is a London Underground line that runs between in suburban north-west London and in east London, via the Docklands, South Bank and West End.

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Ken Livingstone

Kenneth Robert Livingstone (born 17 June 1945) is an English retired politician who served as the Leader of the Greater London Council (GLC) from 1981 until the council was abolished in 1986, and as Mayor of London from the creation of the office in 2000 until 2008.

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Kenneth Howorth

Kenneth Robert Howorth (28 September 1932 – 26 October 1981) was a British army officer and an explosives officer with London's Metropolitan Police Service who was killed whilst attempting to defuse a bomb planted by the Provisional IRA in Oxford Street.

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King's College London

King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public research university located in London, England.

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Kylie Minogue

Kylie Ann Minogue (born 28 May 1968) is an Australian singer and actress.

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Landed property

In real estate, a landed property or landed estate is a property that generates income for the owner (typically a member of the gentry) without the owner having to do the actual work of the estate.

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Landsec

Land Securities Group plc, trading as Landsec, is the largest commercial property development and investment company in the United Kingdom.

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Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (14 August 1802 – 15 October 1838) was an English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L.E.L. Landon's writings are emblematic of the transition from Romanticism to Victorian literature.

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Libido

In psychology, libido (from the Latin, 'desire') is psychic drive or energy, usually conceived as sexual in nature, but sometimes conceived as including other forms of desire.

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Lilley & Skinner

Lilley & Skinner was a British mid-market shoe brand, manufacturer, retailer and wholesale distributor of their own and others' boots and shoes and associated chain of high street shoe shops.

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List of eponymous roads in London

The following is a partial list of eponymous roads in London – that is, roads named after people – with notes on the link between the road and the person.

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Listed building

In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural and/or historic interest deserving of special protection.

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Littlewoods

Littlewoods was a retail and football betting company founded in Liverpool, England, by John Moores in 1923.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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London College of Fashion

The London College of Fashion is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London, a public art university in London, England.

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London congestion charge

The London congestion charge is a fee charged on most cars and motor vehicles being driven within the Congestion Charge Zone (CCZ) in Central London between 7:00 am and 6:00 pm Monday to Friday, and between 12:00 noon and 6:00 pm Saturday and Sunday.

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London Underground

The London Underground (also known simply as the Underground or by its nickname the Tube) is a rapid transit system serving Greater London and some parts of the adjacent home counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire in England.

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Louis Armstrong

Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed "Satchmo", "Satch", and "Pops", was an American trumpeter and vocalist.

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Lush (company)

Lush Retail Ltd. is a British cosmetics retailer which is headquartered in Poole, Dorset, United Kingdom.

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Malcolm McLaren

Malcolm Robert Andrew McLaren (3 September 1946 – 8 April 2010) was a Yemeni-Born fashion designer and music manager.

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Mappin & Webb

Mappin & Webb is an international jewellery company headquartered in England, tracing its origins to a silver workshop founded in Sheffield in.

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Marble Arch

The Marble Arch is a 19th-century white marble-faced triumphal arch in London, England.

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Marble Arch tube station

Marble Arch is a London Underground station in the City of Westminster.

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Margaret Bentinck, Duchess of Portland

Margaret Cavendish Bentinck, Duchess of Portland (11 February 1715 – 17 July 1785) was the richest woman in Great Britain of her time, styled Lady Margaret Harley before 1734, Duchess of Portland from 1734 to her husband's death in 1761, and Dowager Duchess of Portland from 1761 until her own death in 1785.

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Marks & Spencer

Marks and Spencer plc (commonly abbreviated to M&S and colloquially known as Marks or Marks & Sparks) is a major British multinational retailer based in London, England, that specialises in selling clothing, beauty products, home products and food products.

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Marshall & Snelgrove

Marshall & Snelgrove was a department store on the north side of Oxford Street, London, on the corner with Vere Street founded by James Marshall (b.1806 Yorkshire – d.22 November 1893).

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Marylebone

Marylebone (usually, also) is an area in London, England and is located in the City of Westminster.

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Marylebone Lane

Marylebone Lane is one of the original streets of the Marylebone district of the City of Westminster, London.

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Mayfair

Mayfair is an area in London, England and is located in the City of Westminster.

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Mayor of London

The mayor of London is the chief executive of the Greater London Authority.

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Metropolitan Police

The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), formerly known as the Metropolitan Police, which is still its common name, serves as the territorial police force responsible for law enforcement and crime prevention within Greater London.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.

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Moderne architecture

Moderne architecture, also sometimes referred to as Style Moderne or simply Moderne, Jazz Age, Moderne, Jazz Modern or Jazz style, describes certain styles of architecture popular from 1925 through the 1940s.

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Money laundering

Money laundering is the process of illegally concealing the origin of money, obtained from illicit activities such as drug trafficking, corruption, embezzlement or gambling, by converting it into a legitimate source.

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Monopoly (game)

Monopoly is a multiplayer economics-themed board game.

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Newgate Prison

Newgate Prison was a prison at the corner of Newgate Street and Old Bailey Street just inside the City of London, England, originally at the site of Newgate, a gate in the Roman London Wall.

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Nitrogen dioxide

Nitrogen dioxide is a chemical compound with the formula.

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Northern line

The Northern line is a London Underground line that runs from North London to South London.

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Old Cavendish Street

Old Cavendish Street, originally Cavendish Street, is a street in Marylebone in the City of Westminster in central London that runs from Henrietta Place in the north to Oxford Street in the south.

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Online shopping is a form of electronic commerce which allows consumers to directly buy goods or services from a seller over the Internet using a web browser or a mobile app.

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In the United Kingdom, an out-of-town shopping centre is an enclosed shopping centre located outside of a town centre.

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Oxford

Oxford is a city and non-metropolitan district in Oxfordshire, England, of which it is the county town.

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Oxford Circus

Oxford Circus is a road junction connecting Oxford Street and Regent Street in the West End of London.

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Oxford Circus tube station

Oxford Circus is a London Underground station serving Oxford Circus at the junction of Regent Street and Oxford Street, with entrances on all four corners of the intersection.

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Pantheon, London

The Pantheon was a place of public entertainment on the south side of Oxford Street, London, England.

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Park Lane

Park Lane is a dual carriageway road in the City of Westminster in Central London.

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Peter Robinson (department store)

Peter Robinson was a chain of department stores with its flagship store being situated at Oxford Circus, London.

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Phonograph record

A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English), a vinyl record (for later varieties only), or simply a record or vinyl is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove.

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Piccadilly

Piccadilly is a road in the City of Westminster, London, England, to the south of Mayfair, between Hyde Park Corner in the west and Piccadilly Circus in the east. Oxford Street and Piccadilly are shopping streets in London.

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Portland stone

Portland stone is a limestone geological formation (formally named the Portland Stone Formation) dating to the Tithonian age of the Late Jurassic that is quarried on the Isle of Portland in Dorset, England.

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Portman Estate

The Portman Estate, covering 110 acres of Marylebone in London’s West End, was founded in 1532 when the land was first leased to Sir William Portman.

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Poverty reduction

Poverty reduction, poverty relief, or poverty alleviation is a set of measures, both economic and humanitarian, that are intended to permanently lift people out of poverty.

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Princess's Theatre, London

The Princess's Theatre or Princess Theatre was a theatre in Oxford Street, London.

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Protein

Proteins are large biomolecules and macromolecules that comprise one or more long chains of amino acid residues.

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Prudential plc

Prudential plc is a British-domiciled multinational insurance company headquartered in London and Hong Kong.

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Pub

A pub (short for public house) is in several countries a drinking establishment licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises.

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Public execution

A public execution is a form of capital punishment which "members of the general public may voluntarily attend." This definition excludes the presence of only a small number of witnesses called upon to assure executive accountability.

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Punk rock

Punk rock (also known as simply punk) is a music genre that emerged in the mid-1970s.

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R. Frank Atkinson

Robert Frank Atkinson (1869 – 15 June 1923) was a British architect.

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Rates in the United Kingdom

Rates are a tax on property in the United Kingdom used to fund local government.

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Rathbone Place

Rathbone Place is a street in central London that runs roughly north-west from Oxford Street to Percy Street.

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Regent Hall

The Regent Hall is a Salvation Army centre on London's Oxford Street.

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Regent Street

Regent Street is a major shopping street in the West End of London. Oxford Street and Regent Street are shopping streets in London.

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Reinforced concrete

Reinforced concrete, also called ferroconcrete, is a composite material in which concrete's relatively low tensile strength and ductility are compensated for by the inclusion of reinforcement having higher tensile strength or ductility.

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Relief

Relief is a sculptural method in which the sculpted pieces remain attached to a solid background of the same material.

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River Tyburn

The River Tyburn was a stream (bourn) in London, England.

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Roman roads

Roman roads (viae Romanae; singular: via Romana; meaning "Roman way") were physical infrastructure vital to the maintenance and development of the Roman state, and were built from about 300 BC through the expansion and consolidation of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire.

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Rookery (slum)

A rookery, in the colloquial English of the 18th and 19th centuries, was a city slum occupied by poor people and frequently also by criminals and prostitutes.

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Sadiq Khan

Sadiq Aman Khan (born 8 October 1970) is a British politician serving as Mayor of London since 2016.

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Salvation Army brass band

A Salvation Army brass band is a brass band affiliated with a Corps, Division or Territory of the Salvation Army.

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SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant

Omicron (B.1.1.529) is a variant of SARS-CoV-2 first reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) by the Network for Genomics Surveillance in South Africa on 24 November 2021.

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Selfridges

Selfridges, also known as Selfridges & Co., is a chain of upscale department stores in the United Kingdom that is operated by Selfridges Retail Limited, part of the Selfridges Group of department stores.

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Selfridges, Oxford Street

Selfridges is a Grade II listed retail premises on Oxford Street in London.

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Sex Pistols

The Sex Pistols are an English punk rock band formed in London in 1975.

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Shepherd's Bush

Shepherd's Bush is a suburb of West London, England, within the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham west of Charing Cross, and identified as a major metropolitan centre in the London Plan.

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Silchester

Silchester is a village and civil parish about north of Basingstoke in Hampshire.

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Sketches by Boz

Sketches by "Boz," Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People (commonly known as Sketches by Boz) is a collection of short pieces Charles Dickens originally published in various newspapers and other periodicals between 1833 and 1836.

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Slum clearance in the United Kingdom

Slum clearance in the United Kingdom has been used as an urban renewal strategy to transform low-income settlements with poor reputation into another type of development or housing.

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Soho

Soho is an area of the City of Westminster in the West End of London.

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Somerset House, Park Lane

Somerset House (built 1769–70; demolished 1915), was an 18th-century town house on the east side of Park Lane, where it meets Oxford Street, in the Mayfair area of London.

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Sophie von La Roche

Marie Sophie von La Roche (née Gutermann von Gutershofen; 6 December 1730 – 18 February 1807) was a German novelist.

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Squatting

Squatting is the action of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied area of land or a building, usually residential, that the squatter does not own, rent or otherwise have lawful permission to use.

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St Giles Circus

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 station directly under the junction.

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St Giles, London

St Giles is an area in London, England and is located in the London Borough of Camden.

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Stanley Green

Stanley Owen Green (22 February 1915 – 4 December 1993), known as the Protein Man, was a human billboard in central London in the latter half of the 20th century.

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Steel frame

Steel frame is a building technique with a "skeleton frame" of vertical steel columns and horizontal I-beams, constructed in a rectangular grid to support the floors, roof and walls of a building which are all attached to the frame.

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Tax evasion

Tax evasion is an illegal attempt to defeat the imposition of taxes by individuals, corporations, trusts, and others.

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Television Personalities

The Television Personalities are an English post-punk band formed in 1977 by London singer-songwriter Dan Treacy.

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Tetrahydrocannabinol

Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) is a cannabinoid found in cannabis.

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The Animals

The Animals (also billed as Animals & Friends and Eric Burdon and the Animals) are an English rock band formed in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1963.

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The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960, comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.

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The Damned (band)

The Damned are an English punk rock band formed in London in 1976 by lead vocalist Dave Vanian, guitarist Brian James, bassist (and later guitarist) Captain Sensible and drummer Rat Scabies.

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The Flying Horse

The Flying Horse is a Grade II* listed public house at 6 Oxford Street, Marylebone in the City of Westminster.

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The Kinks

The Kinks were an English rock band formed in London in 1963 by brothers Ray and Dave Davies.

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The Salvation Army

The Salvation Army (TSA) is a Protestant Christian church and an international charitable organization headquartered in London, England.

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The Sunday Times

The Sunday Times is a British Sunday newspaper whose circulation makes it the largest in Britain's quality press market category.

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The Who

The Who are an English rock band formed in London in 1964.

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Thomas Bennett (architect)

Sir Thomas Penberthy Bennett KBE FRIBA (14 August 1887 – 29 January 1980) was an English architect, responsible for much of the development of the new towns of Crawley and Stevenage.

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Thomas S. Tait

Thomas Smith Tait (18 June 1882 – 18 July 1954) was a Scottish modernist architect.

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Toll road

A toll road, also known as a turnpike or tollway, is a public or private road (almost always a freeway since the 1940s) for which a fee (or toll) is assessed for passage.

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Topshop

TOPSHOP (originally Top Shop) is a British fast-fashion company, which specialises in women's clothing, shoes and accessories.

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Tottenham Court Road

Tottenham Court Road (occasionally abbreviated as TCR) is a major road in Central London, almost entirely within the London Borough of Camden. Oxford Street and Tottenham Court Road are shopping streets in London.

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Tottenham Court Road station

Tottenham Court Road is an interchange station in the West End of London for London Underground and Elizabeth line services.

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Tower block

A tower block, high-rise, apartment tower, residential tower, apartment block, block of flats, or office tower is a tall building, as opposed to a low-rise building and is defined differently in terms of height depending on the jurisdiction.

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Trad jazz

Trad jazz, short for "traditional jazz", is a form of jazz in the United States and Britain that flourished from the 1930s to 1960s, based on the earlier New Orleans Dixieland jazz style.

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Traffic congestion

Traffic congestion is a condition in transport that is characterized by slower speeds, longer trip times, and increased vehicular queueing.

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Traffic light

Traffic lights, traffic signals, or stoplights – also known as robots in South Africa and Namibia – are signaling devices positioned at road intersections, pedestrian crossings, and other locations in order to control the flow of traffic.

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Transport for London

Transport for London (TfL) is a local government body responsible for most of the transport network in London, United Kingdom.

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Trunk road

A trunk road is a major highway with a specific legal classification in some jurisdictions, notably the United Kingdom, Sweden and formerly Ireland.

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Twelfth Night (holiday)

Twelfth Night (also known as Epiphany Eve depending upon the tradition) is a Christian festival on the last night of the Twelve Days of Christmas, marking the coming of the Epiphany.

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Tyburn

Tyburn was a manor (estate) in the county of Middlesex, England, one of two which were served by the parish of Marylebone.

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United Arab Emirates

The United Arab Emirates (UAE), or simply the Emirates, is a country in West Asia, in the Middle East.

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United Kingdom House

United Kingdom House at 164–182 Oxford Street in the City of Westminster, London, is a grade II listed former Waring and Gillow's department store designed in 1905–1906 by Frank Atkinson with advice from Richard Norman Shaw.

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University of the Arts London

The University of the Arts London is a public collegiate university in London, England, United Kingdom.

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Uxbridge

Uxbridge is a suburban town in west London and the administrative headquarters of the London Borough of Hillingdon.

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V-2 rocket

The V2 (lit), with the technical name Aggregat 4 (A4), was the world's first long-range guided ballistic missile.

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Vere Street, Marylebone

Vere Street is a street off Oxford Street, in central London.

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Victoria line

The Victoria line is a London Underground line that runs between in south London and in the north-east, via the West End.

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Wardour Street

Wardour Street is a street in Soho, City of Westminster, London.

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Waring & Gillow

Waring & Gillow (also written as Waring and Gillow) was a noted firm of English furniture manufacturers and antique dealers formed in 1897 by the merger of Gillows of Lancaster and London and Waring of Liverpool.

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Wells Street

Wells Street is a street in the City of Westminster.

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West End of London

The West End of London (commonly referred to as the West End) is a district of Central London, London, England, west of the City of London and north of the River Thames, in which many of the city's major tourist attractions, shops, businesses, government buildings and entertainment venues, including West End theatres, are concentrated.

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Westfield London

Westfield London is a large shopping centre in White City, west London, England, developed by the Westfield Group at a cost of £1.6bn, on a brownfield site formerly the home of the 1908 Franco-British Exhibition.

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Westfield Stratford City

Westfield Stratford City is a shopping centre in Stratford, East London, which opened on 13 September 2011.

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Whitehall

Whitehall is a road and area in the City of Westminster, Central London, England.

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Wigmore Street

Wigmore Street is a street in the City of Westminster, in the West End of London.

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Wimpy (restaurant)

Wimpy is a fast-food chain that was founded in the United States.

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Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who was twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War, and 1951 to 1955.

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Woolworths (United Kingdom)

Woolworths was a British high-street retail chain.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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100 Club

The 100 Club is a music venue located at 100 Oxford Street, London, England, where it has been hosting live music since 24 October 1942.

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See also

Shopping streets in London

• All Saints Road
• Beauchamp Place
• Blenheim Crescent
• Bond Street
• Borough High Street
• Brewer Street
• Bruton Street
• Carnaby Street
• Chalk Farm Road
• Conduit Street
• Denmark Street
• George Street, Richmond
• Greek Street
• Hatton Garden
• Holland Park Avenue
• Holloway Road
• Jermyn Street
• Kensington Church Street
• Kensington High Street
• King's Road
• Leather Lane
• Marchmont Street
• Marylebone High Street
• Mercer Street, London
• Monmouth Street
• Neal's Yard
• New Malden High Street
• North End, Croydon
• Notting Hill Gate
• Old Compton Street
• Oxford Street
• Piccadilly
• Piccadilly Market
• Portobello Road
• Powis Street
• Regent Street
• Savile Row
• Sloane Street
• South Molton Street
• St Christopher's Place
• St George's Walk
• Streatham High Road
• Sutton High Street
• Tavistock Street
• Tottenham Court Road
• Upper Street
• Westbourne Grove
• Whitechapel High Street
• Whitechapel Road

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_Street

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