Jermyn Street is a one-way street in St James's, Westminster in central London, to the south, parallel and adjacent to Piccadilly.
It is widely known as a place where the shops are almost exclusively aimed at the gentlemen's clothing market and it is famous for its resident shirtmakers such as Turnbull & Asser, Charles Tyrwhitt, Thomas Pink and T. M. Lewin. Gentlemen's outfitters Hackett, DAKS, and Harvie & Hudson are also located on Jermyn Street, as well as shoe- and boot-makers John Lobb and Foster & Son.
A number of other notable businesses occupy premises on the street, such as the barbers Geo.F. Trumper and Taylors of Old Bond Street, cigar shops Davidoff and Alfred Dunhill, as well as Britain's oldest cheese shop, Paxton & Whitfield, trading since 1797.
Tramp nightclub and the 70-seat Jermyn Street Theatre (the West End's smallest) are other notable sites.
Read more about Jermyn Street: History, Shirtmaking
Famous quotes containing the word street:
“If the street life, not the Whitechapel street life, but that of the common but so-called respectable part of town is in any city more gloomy, more ugly, more grimy, more cruel than in London, I certainly don’t care to see it. Sometimes it occurs to one that possibly all the failures of this generation, the world over, have been suddenly swept into London, for the streets are a restless, breathing, malodorous pageant of the seedy of all nations.”
—Willa Cather (1876–1947)