Edit "Liberty, Regent Street"
Cancel edit
About your edit
Your username (
set it
):
Comment about your changes:
Type of edit:
Normal edit
Minor tidying
Main information
Content: (see also
text formatting help
)
A large, lovely department store on Great Marlborough Street, just down from [[Oxford Circus Station]]. (Its frontage used to be on [[Locale Regent Street|Regent Street]], but is now closed.) Sells Rowan yarns and a selection of fabrics, along with loads of other homewares. They specialise in Liberty print cotton. Their lace and braid section is well worth a look. Also do stranded cotton and many tapestry kits. The [http://acechick.typepad.com/knitchicks_groups/rowanettes/index.html Rowanettes] knitting group meets here. It has many other departments, including a good selection of (rather high-end) fashion, homewares, furniture and fittings. It also has an antiques and collectables department in the basement, with some very desirable collectors' items from many different eras. Throughout the store, prices are noticeably higher than regular high street department stores. As with [[John Lewis, Oxford Street|John Lewis]], some people think Liberty is not what it once was. They do, however, have a very definite sense of style leaning heavily on the store's origins in the trade of precious items from the Orient, as well as its later links with the Pre-Raphaelite movement in painting and the arts. This is reflected in much of what they sell, and is needless to say not to everyone's taste. See also: * [http://londonrobstuff.blogspot.com/2011/01/liberty-great-marlborough-street-w1.html London Stuff writeup] * [http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/restaurants/restaurant-230657-details/Liberty+Champagne+%26+Oyster+Bar/restaurantReview.do Evening Standard review of the Liberty oyster and champagne bar] * [http://www.londonelicious.com/dining/2009/08/liberty-champagne-oyster-bar.html Londonelicious review of the Liberty oyster and champagne bar] * [http://www.weebirdy.com/2008/11/top-london-tea-spots-tea-at-liberty.html Wee Birdy review of the Liberty tea shop] <div class="last_verified">Last visited by [[Kake]] and [[doop]], late-2006. Opening times taken from the Liberty website, April 2007.</div>
Locales (one per line) (
view all locales in a new window)
:
Oxford Street Regent Street Soho W1
Categories (one per line) (
view all categories in a new window)
:
Craft Shops Department Stores Fabric Shops Homewares Knitting Yarn Shops
One-line summary of this page (for search results):
Additional information
Phone:
Website:
Twitter name (e.g. rglondon):
Opening hours:
Address:
Postcode:
OS X coordinate (e.g. 528113):
OS Y coordinate (e.g. 179347):
Map link:
Image to illustrate this page
URL of image:
Photos should be no larger than 240x240
Name of image copyright holder:
URL of image licence:
URL of image's info page:
Cancel edit