One of the main shopping streets in central London is Oxford Street. It starts at Tottenham Court Road and goes along pretty well straight, past Oxford Circus and Bond Street, to Marble Arch.
Oxford Circus roughly divides the street into two halves. The western end has Selfridges and Bond Street and John Lewis.
In recent years, the area has gone down hill. So many of the smaller shops are empty and abandoned, and many many others are these American sweet shops. Apparently they are for money laundering. We don’t understand it at all.
Hannah Ricketts has done several YouTube videos on the area, and here is a link to the latest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHz72fExrmQ
We don’t go there very often, because we don’t need to and because of the crowds. Security is never great when there are so many tourists about.
We always recognised Selfridges as a good shop. Their cheese counter was second to none.
We have posted pictures of the Xmas lights and some of the shop windows. Maybe it’s us, but every year they seem a bit more disappointing and just cheap advertising.
Buses and taxis used to be able to go down the street and it was great if you had to do some shopping, or just to sightsee. But now it’s gone pedestrian in the western half.
