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B/W print; A view looking east from the Marble Arch end of Oxford Street by Topical Press, 23 Feb 1923

© TfL

Main details

Main details for this item.
Reference number
1999/20019
Description
A view looking east from the Marble Arch end of Oxford Street, dominated by the complex of Selfridge's buildings on the northern side. The street is busy with people and traffic, the latter especially converging at the junction of Oxford Street with Orchard Street and North Audley Street. A line of decorative lampposts runs down the middle of the road. Also in view are some LGOC B-type buses operating on routes 7a and 30; the first is seen in a three-quarter rear offside view, the second in a front offside view. Front views of LGOC buses, possibly S-type buses, can also be seen operating on routes 13 and 51. Automobiles and taxis are also on the road.
Shop/commercial premises visible (other than Selfridge's) are Barratt & Co. Ltd, Northampton, and Stanley Jones & Co, Shop Fitters.
Photographer
Dates
23 Feb 1923
Collection
Object type
  • B/w print
Photograph number
U1524
Location
Topics
Completeness
73%
  • Physical description

    Item content
    AttributeValue
    Text
    Advert: Use Lux Won't Shrink Woollens
    Advert: Dunlop Tyres
    Advert: Self-Denial Week
    Advert: Heinz 57
    Advert: Nestles Milk
    Annotation
    OXFORD STREET: THE WESTERN END, LOOKING NORTH-EAST FROM NORTH AUDLEY ST, FEBRUARY, 1923.

    Showing the Oxford St frontage and a portion of the Orchard St frontage of Selfridge's island site. On right appears the rear of the newly-built Orchard St section (the front elevation harmonising with that of the original building to the east). The old buildings and shops were formerly the premises of Lloyd's the drapers and were acquired by Selfridge's some few years after their (Selfridge's) opening in Oxford St.

    Photograph by Topical Press, Ltd. Underground copyright.
    Design
    AttributeValue
    Shot
    Medium exterior
  • People involved

    RolePerson(s) involved
    Photographer
    Topical Press, 23 Feb 1923
    Copied by
    Colin Tait, 1982
    Colin Tait, 1984
  • Associated companies, people and places

    Places
    Location
    Oxford Street, Westminster, W1
    People
    AttributeValue
    People
    Charles White -