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