02/27/2007 | Oxford St Lights

Each Christmas Oxford street is decorated with an array of festive lights. The annual addition of the lights began in 1959, five years after its neighbour Regent Street had begun the tradition. In 1967, as the recession hit London, the lights were stopped and only returned in 1978 when Oxford Street organised a laser display.

In 2005 the lights were turned on by the band Westlife (one to miss).

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