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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 .
Oxford Circus was altered below ground following a Board of Trade inspection; at the end of 1905, the first test trains began running. [32] The official opening of the BS&WR by Sir Edwin Cornwall took place on 10 March 1906. [33] The first section of the BS&WR was between Baker Street and Lambeth North, then known as Kennington Road. [34]
After 70 years of operation between Edgware and Oxford Circus, the route was withdrawn between Oxford Circus and Orchard Street, and diverted to Marble Arch (returning from Portman Street) on 7 November 2009 as part of the Mayor of London's pledge to reduce the number of buses using Oxford Street, [2] breaking some 2,100 daily passenger ...
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Carnaby Street is a pedestrianised shopping street in Soho in the City of Westminster, Central London.Close to Oxford Street and Regent Street, it is home to fashion and lifestyle retailers, including many independent fashion boutiques.
Cambridge Circus and the Palace Theatre. Cambridge Circus is the partly pedestrianised intersection where Shaftesbury Avenue crosses Charing Cross Road on the eastern edge of Soho, central London. [1] Side-streets Earlham, West, Romilly and Moor streets also converge at this point.
The Sofra (meaning dining table in Turkish) is a restaurant chain in London, United Kingdom, which serves Turkish cuisine.The chef patron is Hüseyin Özer.It was established in 1981 as a small restaurant, which turned later into a chain of restaurants, currently in Mayfair and St Christopher's Place, off Oxford Street.
The Spice of Life is a pub at Cambridge Circus in London's Charing Cross Road. The pub was founded as The George & Thirteen Cantons [ 1 ] in or before 1759, [ 2 ] and later became The Scots Hoose . By 1975 it had been renamed The Spice of Life.