Talk:Regent Street/Archive 1

Dickins & Jones
The Dickins & Jones section needs rewriting, as it has now closed. My wife tells me that Mappin & Webb have a store there, but I haven't seen to confirm. Can anyone update? Schmunk 21:12, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Deleted
I deleted the sentence, "It remains the world's finest toystore" from the Hamleys paragraph, for obvious reasons of bias, subjectivism, and meaninglessness. Trinite 21:05, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Monopoly

 * The street is one of the locations on the standard version of the Monopoly board game.

The great thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from. What definition of 'standard' applies here? —Tamfang (talk) 16:46, 26 May 2009 (UTC)


 * You have a point - obviously it should say the standard UK version, but you could have just made that change, instead of bringing it to the talk page! Diliff  | (Talk)   (Contribs) 16:55, 26 May 2009 (UTC)


 * I might, if I had ever seen a British standard Monopoly board. —Tamfang (talk) 01:01, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

London Transport
Why has the article got into Wikiproject London Transport? I don't see the relevance. ProfDEH (talk) 21:01, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

Hindustan
There seems to be some confusion as to which Hindustan was used to make the department store. Lots42 (talk) 18:14, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

How About Our Flag Back?
The last section of the Events part of the page, 'Other Events Relate With Regent Street Oversea', needs re-written and possibly deleted. I'm not sure it's particularly relevant to the article. The Taiwanese flag was indeed removed from Regent Street, but a Google search for 'How About Our Flag Back' returns only a link to this article, making it difficult to verify and unclear how large the event was. I only searched in english, so perhaps someone could search in chinese or taiwanese? 86.11.186.147 (talk) 04:28, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure that this article should be a battleground for falg wars. At least not in the terms some editors have been using. It may be a fact, as demonstrated by photographs, that the RoC flag was removed from a display on Regent Street, but saying it happened for this reason or that reason is speculation without a reliable source. Besides, is this sort of thing actually relevant in this particular article? --Pete (talk) 17:44, 29 July 2012 (UTC)
 * The photo is terrible quality anyway. ProfDEH (talk) 20:50, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

Regent Circle
From Londonist, it looks like this was a proposal that was never finished. It might be worth mentioning in the article. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 20:28, 20 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Technically, that's part of Portland Place, so I have added information about Regent's Circus there. (Okay, Broadcasting House isn't on Regent Street either but as you can see it from there it can sneak in....) Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  11:58, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

Lower Regent Street has been renamed Regent Street St James
I drive a bus route that goes through Lower Regent Street.

I have noticed that the street signs have been replaced to show Regent Street St James as shown here http://l7.alamy.com/zooms/367a190a623f431daf39a17fe323369d/street-sign-in-london-uk-ex21wt.jpg

I don't want to create original research; I am just going by what I have seen.

This website explains the official renaming of Lower Regent Street:

http://www.stjameslondon.co.uk/correspondent/regent-street-st-james-s/

Frankly I hate the new name Regent Street St James. It is much harder to say than Lower Regent Street.

Nearly everybody I have spoken to addresses that road as Lower Regent Street. Even the sign at Piccadilly Circus station clearly calls that road Lower Regent Street as shown in this web link: http://l7.alamy.com/zooms/6ffdcdf1b5c647c9b6fdde56fdcc9515/an-old-sign-for-shaftsbury-avenue-haymarketm-regent-street-piccadilly-fk1757.jpg

Any comments please? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.97.245.229 (talk) 00:00, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

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Panoramic view of Oxford Circus: clarity required
The panoramic view of Oxford Circus does not make it clear which of the streets is Regent Street, and since the corners have almost identical architecture even I, who've been there numerous times, can't tell just by looking. Please caption the image clearly indicating what's where. Lee M (talk) 02:44, 25 July 2020 (UTC)