Top Retail-related places to visit in London.
It's what girls do best, and London never disappoints. Here are some of top shopping locations and retail highlights, from the oldest to the most celebrated. Spend a penny!
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11. The Old Curiosity Shop @ 13-14 Portsmouth Street, London
12. A Market steeped in History @ Leather Lane
13. George Wombwell's Menagerie @ Old Compton Street
14. The Year Round Christmas Shop @ Hays Galleria, 55a Tooley Street, London
15. Simply Sausages @ Harts Corner, 341 London Central Markets
16. Mary Quant's Bazaar @ Markham House, 138a King's Road, Chelsea
17. Hamleys Toy Store @ 188 - 196 Regent Street
18. Seven Dials (nee Six) @ Monmouth Street, Covent Garden, London
19. House of Reeves @ 120 Church Street, Croydon
20. The First Shop in the World @ 25 Nelson Road, Greenwich, London
21. The first Waitrose @ 263 High Street, Acton Hill
22. Gong...Notting Hill @ 142 Portobello Road
23. The Beatles Apple Shop @ 94 Baker Street, London
24. The Demon Barber of Fleet Street @ 186 Fleet Street, London
25. Sylvia's Suffragette Shop @ 198 Bow Road, Bow, London
26. Treadwell's Bookshop @ 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury
27. Walthamstow Market @ Hoe Street to St James's Street
28. Binks in Bates @ 21a Jermyn Street, St. James's, London
29. Truefitt and Hill @ 71 St. James's Street, Mayfair
30. Magic, Gizmos & FUN @ 246 High Holborn
31. Monocles - Fashion for Today @ 41 New Cavendish Street
32. Merlin's Cave @ Carlisle House, Soho Square, London
33. Westfield Stratford City East @ Montfichet Road, Olympic Park
34. Birch's Immortal Shop @ 15 Cornhill, London
35. Exchange Alley @ Bank, London
36. Tomorrow Never Dies Car Chase @ Brent Cross Car Park, Brent Cross
37. The Sights of Soho @ Meard Street, Soho
38. Orwell's Booklovers Corner @ 1 South End Road, Hampstead, London
39. Winfield House @ North West Regents Park, London
40. McLaren and Westwood's SEX @ 430 Kings Road, London
41. Facts on Selfridges @ 400 Oxford Street
42. Tantalise those Taste Buds @ 38 Tavistock Street, Covent Garden
43. The Shop the Looters Ignored @ 70-72 St John's Road, Clapham
44. Electric Avenue @ Electric Avenue, Brixton, London
45. The First McDonalds in UK @ Powis Street, Woolwich
46. Where the Tricks came from @ 25 New Oxford Street
47. Jigsaw and Kate Middleton @ 9 Argyll Street
48. Yuletide Food with French Flair @ 202 Upper Street, Islington
49. The Great Pearl Robbery @ 88 Hatton Garden, Holborn
50. Feel the fibre of the fabric @ Joel & Son Fabrics, 75-83 Church Street
51. White's Chocolate House @ 69 St. James Street
52. The World's First Ever Cashpoint @ 20 The Town, Enfield
53. Tea, Tea, Glorious Tea @ 45 Berwick Street, Soho
54. Leadenhall Market @ 48-51 Leadenhall Market
55. HMV's first Celebrity Opening @ 363 Oxford Street
56. Cupcakes in Kensington @ 132 Kensington Church Street
57. Bethnal Green...a Snatch @ 88 Teesdale Street
58. Once a great Music Venue @ 246 Hackney Road
59. Handbag Gang Strike Again @ New Bond Street
60. Bagels while you Shop @ Nicole Farhi, 202 Westbourne Grove
61. Jimmy Greaves Sports Shop @ 1 New Road, South Chingford
62. Old Spitalfields Market @ 16 Horner Square, Spitalfields
63. Portobello Road Markets @ Portobello Road
64. ExCel London @ Custom House, Docklands
65. Cricket in Covent Garden @ 21 Cranbourn Street, Covent Garden, London
66. R. Soles of London @ 109A Kings Road, Chelsea
67. Good Gifts in a Tree @ 53 Exmouth Market
68. London's Most Female Street @ Sloane Street, Knightsbridge, London
69. John Lobb Bootmakers @ 9 St. James's Street, London
70. Retail on the River @ Gabriel's Wharf
71. Trinkets, Gems and Tourists @ Covent Garden
72. Sally Clarke's @ 122 & 124 Kensington Church Street, Kensington
73. Massage...on your time @ Neal's Yard, Covent Garden
74. London's only Antique Dept Store @ 150 Chiswick High Road
75. Harrods @ 87-135 Brompton Road, Knightsbridge
76. Tip-Top Umbrellas @ James Smith & Sons, 53 New Oxford Street
77. Charing Cross Book Worms @ Charing Cross Road
78. Market...stop shouting, go Shop @ Stadium Car Park, Engineers Way
79. Seven Sisters Market @ Pueblito Paisa, 231 High Road, Seven Sisters, Lo
80. Pink Floyd's Drum Shop @ 41 Store Street, Bloomsbury
81. Woolwich Works @ The Fireworks Factory, 11 No 1 St, Royal Arsenal
82. Making Cake since the 1900s @ 111 Sydenham Road
83. Liberty @ Regent Street, London
84. Agnes Marshalls Food Empire @ 32 Mortimer Street, Fitzrovia
85. She's in Fashion... @ 51 Endell Street, Covent Garden
86. WH Smith lived here @ 12c Hyde Park Street, Bayswater
87. The Camden Markets @ Camden Lock Place
88. Maple House @ 149 Tottenham Court Road
89. Scandinavian Food for All @ 61 Great Titchfield Street
90. Sothebys @ 3435 New Bond Street
91. Walk In Back Rub @ 11 Charlotte Place
92. Churchill's Favourite for Cheese @ 93 Jermyn Street
93. Virgin Born Here @ 2 Symons Street, London
94. Richard Branson born here @ Stonefield Nursing Home, 904 Sidcup Road, London
95. Debenhams. a loo with a view @ 334-348 Oxford Street
96. Fox and Lewis @ 19 St James Street, London
97. Quercus - Publishing Revelation @ 21 Bloomsbury Square, Bloomsbury
98. Floris Perfumerie @ 89 Jermyn Street, London
99. Is This The New Portobello? @ Lower Marsh
100. Garrards Jewellers @ 24 Albemarle Street, Mayfair
101. Chrisp Street Market @ Chrisp Street, Poplar
102. Experts in Retro @ 4 Nettlefold Place
103. Labour and Wait... @ 18 Cheshire Street
104. The Kensington Poltergeist @ 20 Bute Street, South Kensington, London
105. Anderson & Sheppard @ 17 Clifford Street, Mayfair
106. Mr Freedom and Mr Feed em @ 20 Kensington Church Street, Kensington
107. Catch the best fishmongers @ 88-90 Essex Road
108. Habitat & Joseph's First Home @ 77 Fulham Road, Chelsea
109. Former Toilet for your Jeweller @ 58 Davies Street
110. Sainsbury's started here @ 173 Drury Lane, Holborn, London
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