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    Most of the shops in Oxford Street look like shops in all other streets, but some of them are not like the others. One of the most well-known shops in the street is Marks & Spencer, whose headquarters has some articles, which you can not always find in the branch. Here new articles are introduced, and only if the sale is good enough, they are later sent out all over the country. The other big magnet is Selfridges, which competes with Harrods in being London’s biggest and most well-stocked department store. The statue on the big art deco-clock over the main entrance represents The Queen of Time standing in the stem of " the trading ship".

    Stratford Place is a surprising interruption of Oxford Street’s nearly unbroken shoprow. Stratford Place is a blind alley which leads in to the elegant and well-preserved baroque palace Stratford House from 1723.

    John Lewis is another of Oxford Street department store with the motto "If anybody sells cheaper than we do, it is because, we haven’t heard about it". The shop refund the difference in price, if you find the same article cheaper in another shop. In the cross between Oxford Street and Regent Street is the crowded Oxford Circus. Stand quietly and look up at Regent Street and Langham Place and the round column and the spire on All Souls Church. The church was built here to give Regent Street a dignifieded perspective, but it is overshadowed partial by office blocks and signboards. There are two very large and wellknown musicshops on the stretch, HMV and .



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