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. Seven Dials (nee Six) @ Monmouth Street, Covent Garden, London
12. Mary Quant's Bazaar @ Markham House, 138a King's Road, Chelsea
13. The Beatles Apple Shop @ 94 Baker Street, London
14. Electric Avenue @ Electric Avenue, Brixton, London
15. Treadwell's Bookshop @ 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury
16. The World's First Ever Cashpoint @ 20 The Town, Enfield
17. The General Trading Stores @ 26 Symons Street, Sloane Square, London
18. Richard Branson Lived here @ 11 Holland Park, London
19. McLaren and Westwood's SEX @ 430 Kings Road, London
20. The First McDonalds in UK @ Powis Street, Woolwich
21. The first ever Tesco @ 9 Watling Avenue, Burnt Oak
22. Harrods @ 87-135 Brompton Road, Knightsbridge
23. Binks in Bates @ 21a Jermyn Street, St. James's, London
24. The First Shop in the World @ 25 Nelson Road, Greenwich, London
25. The Year Round Christmas Shop @ Hays Galleria, 55a Tooley Street, London
26. Making Cake since the 1900s @ 111 Sydenham Road
27. Cricket in Covent Garden @ 21 Cranbourn Street, Covent Garden, London
28. Raymond's Revue Bar @ 11 Walkers Court, Brewer Street, Soho, London
29. House of Reeves @ 120 Church Street, Croydon
30. The Oldest Bank in London @ Child's Bank, 1 Fleet Street, London
31. Merlin's Cave @ Carlisle House, Soho Square, London
32. Charing Cross Book Worms @ Charing Cross Road
33. Old Spitalfields Market @ 16 Horner Square, Spitalfields
34. Where the Tricks came from @ 25 New Oxford Street
35. Gong...Notting Hill @ 142 Portobello Road
36. Quercus - Publishing Revelation @ 21 Bloomsbury Square, Bloomsbury
37. Jimmy Greaves Sports Shop @ 1 New Road, South Chingford
38. Sylvia's Suffragette Shop @ 198 Bow Road, Bow, London
39. Walthamstow Market @ Hoe Street to St James's Street
40. Agnes Marshalls Food Empire @ 32 Mortimer Street, Fitzrovia
41. Simply Sausages @ Harts Corner, 341 London Central Markets
42. Virgin Born Here @ 2 Symons Street, London
43. Woolwich Works @ The Fireworks Factory, 11 No 1 St, Royal Arsenal
44. The Shop the Looters Ignored @ 70-72 St John's Road, Clapham
45. Orwell's Booklovers Corner @ 1 South End Road, Hampstead, London
46. Facts on Selfridges @ 400 Oxford Street
47. Magic, Gizmos & FUN @ 246 High Holborn
48. Westfield Stratford City East @ Montfichet Road, Olympic Park
49. Truefitt and Hill @ 71 St. James's Street, Mayfair
50. Pink Floyd's Drum Shop @ 41 Store Street, Bloomsbury
51. Anderson & Sheppard @ 17 Clifford Street, Mayfair
52. White's Chocolate House @ 69 St. James Street
53. Churchill's Favourite for Cheese @ 93 Jermyn Street
54. Sainsbury's started here @ 173 Drury Lane, Holborn, London
55. Catch the best fishmongers @ 88-90 Essex Road
56. HMV's first Celebrity Opening @ 363 Oxford Street
57. Bagels while you Shop @ Nicole Farhi, 202 Westbourne Grove
58. Tantalise those Taste Buds @ 38 Tavistock Street, Covent Garden
59. Seven Sisters Market @ Pueblito Paisa, 231 High Road, Seven Sisters, Lo
60. The first Waitrose @ 263 High Street, Acton Hill
61. Tip-Top Umbrellas @ James Smith & Sons, 53 New Oxford Street
62. Handbag Gang Strike Again @ New Bond Street
63. Jigsaw and Kate Middleton @ 9 Argyll Street
64. Debenhams. a loo with a view @ 334-348 Oxford Street
65. Exchange Alley @ Bank, London
66. Winfield House @ North West Regents Park, London
67. Fox and Lewis @ 19 St James Street, London
68. The Great Pearl Robbery @ 88 Hatton Garden, Holborn
69. Feel the fibre of the fabric @ Joel & Son Fabrics, 75-83 Church Street
70. Home to the Geisha Kimonos @ 1-7 Davies Mews
71. Once a great Music Venue @ 246 Hackney Road
72. The Westfield London @ Shepherd's Bush, London
73. Market...stop shouting, go Shop @ Stadium Car Park, Engineers Way
74. Walk In Back Rub @ 11 Charlotte Place
75. Kristin Baybars Toyshop @ 7 Mansfield Road, Gospel Oak
76. Once there were Herrings @ 137 Cannon Street
77. She's in Fashion... @ 51 Endell Street, Covent Garden
78. Sally Clarke's @ 122 & 124 Kensington Church Street, Kensington
79. Good Gifts in a Tree @ 53 Exmouth Market
80. Maple House @ 149 Tottenham Court Road
81. Coal Drops Yard @ Kings Cross
82. Floris Perfumerie @ 89 Jermyn Street, London
83. Farming Markets for a Decade @ Cramer Street Car park, Marylebone High Street
84. Chrisp Street Market @ Chrisp Street, Poplar
85. Monocles - Fashion for Today @ 41 New Cavendish Street
86. Is This The New Portobello? @ Lower Marsh
87. ExCel London @ Custom House, Docklands
88. The Sights of Soho @ Meard Street, Soho
89. Leadenhall Market @ 48-51 Leadenhall Market
90. WH Smith lived here @ 12c Hyde Park Street, Bayswater
91. Portobello Road Markets @ Portobello Road
92. The Camden Markets @ Camden Lock Place
93. Labour and Wait... @ 18 Cheshire Street
94. Retail on the River @ Gabriel's Wharf
95. Birch's Immortal Shop @ 15 Cornhill, London
96. Where Do I Find Good Beer? @ Stoke Newington Church Street
97. Tomorrow Never Dies Car Chase @ Brent Cross Car Park, Brent Cross
98. Radical booksellers since 1945 @ 5 Caledonian Road
99. John Lobb Bootmakers @ 9 St. James's Street, London
100. Tea, Tea, Glorious Tea @ 45 Berwick Street, Soho
101. Scandinavian Food for All @ 61 Great Titchfield Street
102. Experts in Retro @ 4 Nettlefold Place
103. The Kensington Poltergeist @ 20 Bute Street, South Kensington, London
104. 80 years and still Dancing @ 94 St Martin's Lane
105. Trinkets, Gems and Tourists @ Covent Garden
106. Cupcakes in Kensington @ 132 Kensington Church Street
107. Faraday's Apprenticeship @ 48 Blandford Street, Marylebone, London
108. Hackney Mafia Shoe Shop @ 5 Hackney Road, Bethnal Green, London
109. London's only Antique Dept Store @ 150 Chiswick High Road
110. What no Drugs? @ 101 Leather Lane
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