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original HMV store

Categories: Commerce, Music / songs

Londonist writes: "The building was destroyed on Boxing Day 1937 and reopened in 1939. HMV's flagship store moved (slightly) to 150 Oxford Street, but the old address was reacquired in 2013, and remains there now {2016}." The picture shows the store in the 1960s.

2023: Londonist report that in the 2010s HMV moved away from this original site — shuffling to a different Oxford Street location — only to move back there in 2013... then close it down again in 2019. And now, 2023, they are coming back.

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original HMV store

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HMV store

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Jean Muir

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Person, Commerce, Craft / Design, Scotland

1 memorial
Henry Clarke

Henry Clarke

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W. H. Fowler

W. H. Fowler

Director of the Brilliant Sign Company in 1938.

Person, Commerce, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
New Mermaid Tavern, Mare Street

New Mermaid Tavern, Mare Street

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Building, Theatre

1 memorial
Ada Salter

Ada Salter

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W. Yarlett

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War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Arthur Cooper
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Unity Theatre

Unity Theatre

Unity Theatre grew out of the agitprop street theatre in the East End of London in the early 1930's. The theatre, a converted chapel, was destroyed by fire in 1975.

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2 memorials