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Regent Street is home to several events throughout the year. [74] The Regent Street Festival happens annually, and during this time, the street is closed to traffic. [75] In September, there is a series of fashion-related events, dubbed as Fashion and Design Month (FDM), which has been running since 2015.
The locations on the standard British version of the board game Monopoly are set in London and were selected in 1935 by Victor Watson, managing director of John Waddington Limited. Watson became interested in the board game after his son Norman had tried the Parker Brothers original US version and recommended the company produce a board for the ...
Upon reopening in 2016, a documentary of the managers of the English rock band The Who, titled Lambert and Stamp, was screened. [4] Shira MacLeod, the director of the Regent Street Cinema, [6] said it is the only cinema in the UK that can screen films in 16 mm, 35 mm, Super 8 and 4K, allowing it to show films that "have been in archives for ...
Tenison Court today, an alleyway between Regent Street (far end) and Kingly Street. In 1824, as Regent Street was planned, replacing part of Swallow Street, land to the west of the church was given up, which became part of the new street. A new façade with an entrance on Regent Street was built, funded by the Church Building Commission and ...
In 1818, Slade was forced to sell by the Regent Street commissioners. Slade was awarded by a jury £23,000 as compensation (a sum considered high at the time), and the whole of the old building was removed and new rooms erected, on the east side of Regent Street at the north-west corner of Argyll Place. The new building was designed by Nash: on ...
Central Hall of the New Gallery, from the catalogue New Gallery Notes, Summer 1888.. The New Gallery is a Crown Estate-owned Grade II Listed building [1] at 121 Regent Street, London, which originally was an art gallery from 1888 to 1910, The New Gallery Restaurant from 1910 to 1913, The New Gallery Cinema from 1913 to 1953, [2] and a Seventh-day Adventist Church from 1953 to 1992. [3]
In 1919, the Dickins & Jones store acquired a new site at 224-244 Regent Street, a short distance from the old one, and in 1922 it moved into a new building designed for it by Sir Henry Tanner. In 1959, Harrods was itself bought by House of Fraser, but both Harrods and its subsidiary Dickins & Jones continued to trade under their existing names ...
2010 - The launch of the Q Club on the third floor of the Regent Street store; 2011 - Austin Reed move from the original 103-113 Regent Street Store to the opposite side (100 Regent Street) 2016 - Austin Reed entered administration. Five concessions located in Boundary Mills outlet villages will stay open following a buyout by Edinburgh Woollen ...