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Bond Street is a major shopping street in the West End of London. It is one of the principal streets in the West End shopping district and is more upmarket than nearby Regent Street or Oxford Street. It is in the Mayfair district of London, and has been a fashionable shopping street since the 18th century. The southern section is known as Old Bond Street, and the northern section, which is rather more than half the total length, as New Bond Street, but this distinction is not generally made in everyday usage. The term West End is most commonly used to refer to the West End of London, England. ... Nashs Regent Street in 1829. ... This article is about the Oxford Street in London. ... Mayfair is an area in the City of Westminster London, named after the fortnight-long May Fair that took place there from 1686 until it was banned in that location in 1764. ...


At one time Bond Street was best known for top end art dealers and antique shops, clustered around the London office of Sotheby's auction house, which has been in Bond Street for over a hundred years. A few of these remain, but most of the shops are now occupied by fashion boutiques, including branches of most of the leading premium priced designer brands in the world. There are also a few miscellaneous upmarket shops such as jewellers. The street features an unusual statue of Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who are portrayed sitting on a park bench and talking to each other. Sothebys is a noted auction house. ... The Right Honourable Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, FRS (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, best known as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. ... Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882–April 12, 1945), 32nd President of the United States, the longest-serving holder of the office and the only man to be elected President more than twice, was one of the central figures of 20th century history. ...


In recent years Sloane Street, which is a mile or so away in Knightsbridge, the other main shopping district in central London, has become a rival to Bond Street, with duplicate branches of many of the top boutiques. Sloane Street is a street in London which connects Knightsbridge to Sloane Square and forms the boundary between the exclusive districts of Belgravia and Chelsea. ... Knightsbridge is a place in the City of Westminster, London notable for its expensive shops, including Harrods. ...


Bond Street is also a square on the British Monopoly board, the same colour as Regent and Oxford Street. Monopoly is one of the best-selling commercial board games in the world. ...


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Bond Street - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (479 words)
Bond Street is a major shopping street in the West End of London which runs through Mayfair from Piccadilly in the south to Oxford Street in the north.
Bond Street takes its name from Sir Thomas Bond, the head of a syndicate of developers who purchased a Piccadilly mansion called Clarendon House from Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle in 1683 and proceeded to demolish the house and develop the area.
Bond Street is mentioned in a number of works of literature, including Jane Austen's novel Sense and Sensibility and Virginia Wolf's 1925 novel Mrs.
Bond Street tube station - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (290 words)
Bond Street tube station is a London Underground station on Oxford Street, near the junction with New Bond Street.
The station is on the Central Line between Marble Arch and Oxford Circus and on the Jubilee Line, between Baker Street and Green Park.
The first, which saw the original lifts replaced by escalators, a new sub-surface ticket hall and a new façade to the station, designed by the architect Charles Holden, came into use on 8 June 1926.
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