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I used to go there when I was a teenager down to London for the day, and gawp at everything on sale. It's radically different now, and this was only ~20 years ago. If you go now Crossrail has basically knocked down everything from the back of the shops to Centre Point. Lots of the shops on the street are now cafes and other things like that. There's a really glossy, airy new guitar shop at one end that looks like it's been done to fulfil some "cultural significance" planning criteria or something. There's maybe three or four old guitar shops left. It's a real shame. I've known London for a while and seen a few places change quite a lot, but Denmark Street will be completely gone soon after Crossrail fully opens I think.