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18 unusual facts about Oxford Street


Gamages

The store finally closed in 1972, but prior to that had been unusual in as much as its premises were away from the main Oxford Street shopping area, being on the edge of the City of London at Holborn Circus.

Jack Broughton

As a result of his status in boxing, and with help from a number of wealthy patrons, he opened his own amphitheatre in 1743, in Hanway Road, near Oxford Street.

Jack O'Shea's

In November 2008, O'Shea's opened a counter in Selfridges food hall, on Oxford Street.

John Sartorius

In 1780 he exhibited a portrait of a horse at the Royal Academy; Sartorius lived in London at 108 Oxford Street.

Join Me

The several hundred participants then travelled along Oxford Street, distributing leaflets and gifts.

Just the Way I'm Feeling

This saw the store being closed to the general public and was repeated two years later when the band appeared at the same store on Oxford Street for a signing-only event for their 5th studio album Pushing the Senses, when the store was closed yet again.

My Heart Takes Over

However, on 1 November 2011, the band performed the track in the center of Oxford Street during the Christmas Lights Switch On.

Our Earthly Pleasures

A third launch party took place in London, at the 100 Club on Oxford Street, on the evening of 2 April.

Oxford Street, Sydney

On 27 June 2011, the Lord Mayor of Sydney, Clover Moore proposed new directions for lower Oxford Street, and on 22 August 2011 Council resolved to undertake a number of short, medium and long term initiatives to activate City owned properties in the precinct.

Rise of the Ogre

Band creators Jamie Hewlett and Damon Albarn also appeared in Oxford Street, London bookstore Waterstone's to sign copies of the book on 6 November 2006 from 6pm-7pm (note the use of sixes on the date as a reference to Murdoc's satanic ways).

The Officers Club

After a number of buy-outs it become one of the biggest retail companies in the UK with flagship stores in London's Oxford Street, Cardiff, Scotland and north-east England.

The Questions

The album did not sell well, and the band played its final concert on 30 November 1984, at the 100 Club in Oxford Street, London.

Tie Rack

The first store opened in London at 91 Oxford Street; it was converted from a heel bar owned by Bishko from which he had trialled selling ties.

The first airport store opened at Glasgow Airport in 1984 and the current flagship store is located at 295 Oxford Street opposite John Lewis.

Trongate

The London based retailer Selfridges acquired the former Goldbergs site on the corner of Trongate and Candleriggs on which to build a new department store which promised to revamp the area significantly, although progress on this stalled indefinitely after the sale of Selfridges to Canada's Galen Weston in 2003, who intended to revamp Selfridge's flagship Oxford Street store rather than open in Glasgow and other cities such as Newcastle Upon Tyne, Leeds and Bristol.

Valerie Mewes

Stephen Ward, who was to become one of the central figures in the 1963 Profumo Affair, claims to have met Mewes in a doorway in Oxford Street during a thunderstorm at night.

Walter Gilbey

Backed by capital obtained through Henry Gilbey, they accordingly opened in 1857 a small retail business in a basement in Oxford Street, London.

In 1867 the three brothers secured the old Pantheon theatre and concert hall in Oxford Street for their headquarters.


Cornerhouse

Cornerhouse is a centre for cinema and the contemporary visual arts located very close to Oxford Road Station, on Oxford Street in Manchester, England.

Henry Herbert, 10th Earl of Pembroke

He bought 40 Queen Anne St, Marylebone (near Oxford Street), London, using "it as a London town-house only during the Season".

Inditex

Today Inditex's stores can be seen in places like New York's Fifth Avenue, Milan's Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, London's Regent Street and Oxford Street, Frankfurt's Zeil, Shanghai's Nanjing West Road, Tokyo's Shibuya, Istanbul's Nişantaşı, Seoul's Myeong-dong, and Vienna's Kärntner Straße.

Michael Landy

Break Down, the work which put him in the public eye, was held in February 2001 at an old branch of the clothes store C&A on Oxford Street in London (C&A had recently ceased trading, and the shop had been emptied).

Steve Lazarides

By 2009 Lazarides had opened his third London art gallery, near Oxford Street, the first exhibition being of the Portuguese graffiti artist Vhils.

The Green Man and Still

The Green Man and Still was a tavern in Oxford Street, London, much favoured during the 18th & 19th centuries by cricketers - such as William Beldham, Tom Walker and David Harris - playing at Thomas Lord's grounds nearby, and not surprisingly, also patronised by the leading bookmakers of the day.