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.
Oxford Circus in November 2009
The Life Guards parading across Regent Circus North around 1840, past The London General Mourning Warehouse
Oxford Circus in 1904, still showing John Nash's original design
Oxford Circus in 1949 with temporary facade to the Peter Robinson building
Oxford Street is a major road in the City of Westminster in the West End of London, running from Tottenham Court Road to Marble Arch via Oxford Circus. It marks the notional boundary between the areas of Fitzrovia and Marylebone to the north, with Soho and Mayfair to its immediate south. It is Europe's busiest shopping street, with around half a million daily visitors, and as of 2012 had approximately 300 shops. It is designated as part of the A40, a major road between London and Fishguard, though it is not signed as such, and traffic is regularly restricted to buses and taxis.
View east along Oxford Street in May 2016
Oxford Street in 1875 (looking towards the present-day site of Selfridges on the right).
Marshall & Snelgrove's department store building of 1870.
Former Waring & Gillow store of 1906 ('United Kingdom House').