Oxford Street

Oxford Street is a major road in the City of Westminster in the West End of (London, England). Today, it is a famous shopping street and is the site of several department and flagship stores.

In London Labour and the London Poor edition

Phase 1

London Considered as a Great World. (The Great World of London): "If then, by some volcanic convulsion - some subterranean quake and explosion - the earth were suddenly to burst, like a mundane bomb, and, being shattered into a score or two of terroid fragments, the great Metropolis were to be severed from the rest of the globe, London is quite large enough to do duty as a separate world, and to fall to revolving by itself about the sun - with Hampstead and Sydenham for its north and south poles, doomed alike to a six months' winter - with the whole line of Oxford Street, Holborn, and Cheapside, scorching under the everlasting summer of what would then be the metropolitan torrid zone, and whilst it was day at Kensington, night reigning at Mile End."

A Visit to the Rookery of St. Giles and its Neighbourhood. (Volume 4): "Oxford Street is one of the main streets of London, and is ever resounding with the din of vehicles, carts, cabs, hansoms, broughams, and omnibuses driving along. Many of the shops are spacious and crowded with costly goods, and the large windows of plate-glass, set in massive brass frames, are gaily furnished with their various articles of merchandise."

Phase 2

Of the Quantity of Shrubs, "Roots," Flowers, etc., sold in the Streets, and of the Buyers. (Volume 1)

OF THE WOMEN STREET-SELLERS. (Volume 1)

Statement of a Beggar. (Volume 1)

Of the Street-Sellers of Petticoat and Rosemary-Lanes. (Volume 2)

Of the Trades and Localities of the Street-Jews. (Volume 2)

Statement of a Photographic Man. (Volume 3)

Suggestions for Regulating the Trade. (Volume 3)