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Article: Regent Street, then and now
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 11, 2007
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IT has come a long way since the Aquascutum Royal Motor Coat
"undoubtedly t he
SMARTEST and MOST USEFUL COAT for all purposes" Regent Street is
celebrating 180 years of shopping, give or take the odd half-day
closing. And shops founded more than a century ago, such as
Aquascutum, Austin Reed and Jaeger are still going strong today.
Regent Street built by John Nash in the 1820s has always been one
of the capital's fanciest shopping streets. As a Victorian historian
noted: "Regent Street is full of handsome shops, and in the ...