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For about a hundred years beginning in the late 19th century, Wigmore Street had a great concentration of optometrists, dispensing opticians, makers of ophthalmic instruments, and related professions.
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See, for instance, the preponderance of Wigmore Street addresses among the advertisers in the January 1958 British Journal of Ophthalmology at
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in 1899–1901, with a showroom next door. It is located on the north side, just to the east of the junction with
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Numbers 18-22 Wigmore Street, the Brinsmead Galleries, were built in 1892, designed by Leonard V. Hunt for
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concert hall (at No 36 Wigmore Street) was also built by a piano manufacturers, the German company
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The corner of Wimpole and Wigmore Streets features in the famous legal case about causing a "
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are on Oxford Street, which runs south of and parallel to Wigmore Street:
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Number 95 Wigmore Street was the location of the original offices of the
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The Beatles Encyclopaedia (2000 paperback edition; first published 1992)
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piano manufacturers. There are nine showrooms. The well-known
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This London road or road transport-related article is a
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has been located in premises on the street since 1912.
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http://bjo.bmj.com/content/42/1/local/advertising.pdf
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City of Westminster
West End of London
Oxford Street
Portman Square
Cavendish Square
Wigmore
castle
Herefordshire
Robert Harley
politician
Queen Anne
John Brinsmead & Sons
Wigmore Hall
C. Bechstein Pianofortefabrik
Welbeck Street
Harley Street
Wimpole Street
John Bell & Croyden
Beatles
Apple Corps
Savile Row
tube stations
Marble Arch
Bond Street
Oxford Circus
nuisance
Sturges v. Bridgman
Grace's Guide to British Industrial History
Historic England

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