Nearly all street in London is special in many way and many of its well-known London streets have been recorded in vocal as in ?Let?s all go down the Strand?.
The Strand is a very busy road lined with shops, offices and restaurants but until the construction of the Victoria Embankment in the 1860?s it was just a dirty path along the river. Thus it was lined with waterside mansions of landed gentry including the Savoy Palace; in its place you will now see the Savoy Hotel as well as the Palace of the Dukes of Somerset which today is the site of Somerset House. At the end of the Strand you can find Temple Bar with its legal connections and the Old Bailey.
The other side of Temple Bar you can see Fleet Street, the hub of the newspaper world, and named after the river Fleet, it was the road that linked the City to Westminster. Although publishing began in Fleet Street in the 1500?s the newspapers have now moved to sites like Wapping and Canary Wharf and the last major news office, Reuters, moved away in 2005. It is also affiliated with the legendary Sweeney Todd, the devil barber of Fleet Street who killed off his customers and had them made into pies by his partner in crime Mrs. Lovett.
The most known London streets are Regent Street and Oxford Street. These are the two important shopping streets in London, with Oxford Street having all the big stores like Selfridges and John Lewis whilst Regent Street is well famous for shops like Libertys and well-known toy store Hamleys.
Carnaby Street is famous in the 1960s as the place to purchase really trendy up to the particular fashion from the more outrageous designers.
No Street in the world with so many private medical checkup clinics and hospitals as Harley Street in the centre of London.
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