Events
There is a yearly Regent Street Festival when the street is closed to traffic for the day.
The Christmas light displays are a London tradition dating since 1948, when the Regent Street Association decorated the street with Christmas trees. Lighting was not allowed until 1949, following lifting of wartime restrictions, and the first full lighting display was in 1953. There is a different display every year, switched on at an opening ceremony in the first week of November.
On 6 July 2004, half a million people crowded into Regent Street and the surrounding streets to watch a parade of Formula One cars.
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2006 Christmas lights in Regent Street.
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2008 Christmas lights in Regent Street.
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The Williams Formula One team participated in a demonstration in London's Regent Street prior to the 2004 British Grand Prix.
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Regent Street Festival Stage.
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Regent Street with Flags to welcome all athlete from all over the world, during the 2012 Olympic Game.
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Famous quotes containing the word events:
“The phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“The system was breaking down. The one who had wandered alone past so many happenings and events began to feel, backing up along the primal vein that led to his center, the beginning of hiccup that would, if left to gather, explode the center to the extremities of life, the suburbs through which one makes one’s way to where the country is.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“At all events there is in Brooklyn
something that makes me feel at home.”
—Marianne Moore (1887–1972)