Oxford Circus, Oxford Street, Regent Street
- Liberty department store, Hamleys toy store, Spaghetti House, London Underground, West End, Westminster
Oxford Circus is the intersection between and underground station beneath two of London's busiest, most famous and most important shopping streets; Oxford Steet and Regent Street. Regent St, part of the West End district, is filled with more classical white buildings while Oxford St, part of the City of Westminster district, has more modern buildings housing large stores. Oxford Street is Europe's busiest shopping street, with half a milliojn people visiting every day! Oxford Circus is one the busiest places you can imagine with crowds of people all the time.
In the area you find the classic Liberty wooden luxury deperatment store in a historical beautiful half-timbered building with a wooden atrium (founded 1875 and has the famous Liberty clock), and Hamleys toy store on Regent St, that is the world's oldest toy store, founded 1760. It is also the world's largest toy store, with about 10 floors. The large department store Selfridge's is also on Oxford St. It was founded in 1908 and is the 2nd largest department store in the UK, after Harrod's. On Oxford St you also find HMV music store, John Lewis and many other stores.Tthrough the middle ages Oxford St was known as Tyburn Road, notoroius for hangings! Today Oxford St suffers from traffic congestions and pollution. You can often see rows of red double decker buses and black taxis stuck in traffic.
Several clothes stores like H&M can be found on Regent St, and more upmarket ones like Gucci,
Lacoste and Apple store.
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