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. Mary Quant's Bazaar @ Markham House, 138a King's Road, Chelsea
12. Facts on Selfridges @ 400 Oxford Street
13. Whiteleys: Shopping was Murder @ Queensway, London
14. The Demon Barber of Fleet Street @ 186 Fleet Street, London
15. Gong...Notting Hill @ 142 Portobello Road
16. The General Trading Stores @ 26 Symons Street, Sloane Square, London
17. Seven Dials (nee Six) @ Monmouth Street, Covent Garden, London
18. Anderson & Sheppard @ 17 Clifford Street, Mayfair
19. The Old Curiosity Shop @ 13-14 Portsmouth Street, London
20. The Great Pearl Robbery @ 88 Hatton Garden, Holborn
21. R. Soles of London @ 109A Kings Road, Chelsea
22. London's only Antique Dept Store @ 150 Chiswick High Road
23. The First McDonalds in UK @ Powis Street, Woolwich
24. The Oldest Bank in London @ Child's Bank, 1 Fleet Street, London
25. Raymond's Revue Bar @ 11 Walkers Court, Brewer Street, Soho, London
26. Old Spitalfields Market @ 16 Horner Square, Spitalfields
27. Mrs Salmon's Waxworks @ 17 Chancery Lane
28. Walthamstow Market @ Hoe Street to St James's Street
29. Simply Sausages @ Harts Corner, 341 London Central Markets
30. George Wombwell's Menagerie @ Old Compton Street
31. Sainsbury's started here @ 173 Drury Lane, Holborn, London
32. A Market steeped in History @ Leather Lane
33. Leadenhall Market @ 48-51 Leadenhall Market
34. White's Chocolate House @ 69 St. James Street
35. Seven Sisters Market @ Pueblito Paisa, 231 High Road, Seven Sisters, Lo
36. McLaren and Westwood's SEX @ 430 Kings Road, London
37. Binks in Bates @ 21a Jermyn Street, St. James's, London
38. The Beatles Apple Shop @ 94 Baker Street, London
39. The World's First Ever Cashpoint @ 20 The Town, Enfield
40. Coal Drops Yard @ Kings Cross
41. Magic, Gizmos & FUN @ 246 High Holborn
42. Winfield House @ North West Regents Park, London
43. Pink Floyd's Drum Shop @ 41 Store Street, Bloomsbury
44. Catch the best fishmongers @ 88-90 Essex Road
45. Harrods @ 87-135 Brompton Road, Knightsbridge
46. Electric Avenue @ Electric Avenue, Brixton, London
47. Once a great Music Venue @ 246 Hackney Road
48. Sylvia's Suffragette Shop @ 198 Bow Road, Bow, London
49. Maple House @ 149 Tottenham Court Road
50. Making Cake since the 1900s @ 111 Sydenham Road
51. Bethnal Green...a Snatch @ 88 Teesdale Street
52. She's in Fashion... @ 51 Endell Street, Covent Garden
53. Scandinavian Food for All @ 61 Great Titchfield Street
54. Cupcakes in Kensington @ 132 Kensington Church Street
55. Faraday's Apprenticeship @ 48 Blandford Street, Marylebone, London
56. Grand Seraglio... What? @ Covent Garden
57. Where Do I Find Good Beer? @ Stoke Newington Church Street
58. Truefitt and Hill @ 71 St. James's Street, Mayfair
59. Yuletide Food with French Flair @ 202 Upper Street, Islington
60. Lock & Co...Historical Hats @ 6 St. James's Street
61. Former Toilet for your Jeweller @ 58 Davies Street
62. Treadwell's Bookshop @ 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury
63. The Westfield London @ Shepherd's Bush, London
64. Agnes Marshalls Food Empire @ 32 Mortimer Street, Fitzrovia
65. Trinkets, Gems and Tourists @ Covent Garden
66. Kristin Baybars Toyshop @ 7 Mansfield Road, Gospel Oak
67. Feeling Honourable? @ 86 Lower Marsh, Lambeth
68. Westfield Stratford City East @ Montfichet Road, Olympic Park
69. ExCel London @ Custom House, Docklands
70. Once there were Herrings @ 137 Cannon Street
71. Jimmy Greaves Sports Shop @ 1 New Road, South Chingford
72. House of the Mystery Hat @ Goldhawk Road
73. Birch's Immortal Shop @ 15 Cornhill, London
74. The East Ends most famous market @ Petticoat Lane
75. Bagels while you Shop @ Nicole Farhi, 202 Westbourne Grove
76. Habitat & Joseph's First Home @ 77 Fulham Road, Chelsea
77. Richard Branson born here @ Stonefield Nursing Home, 904 Sidcup Road, London
78. Churchill's Favourite for Cheese @ 93 Jermyn Street
79. Virgin Born Here @ 2 Symons Street, London
80. Farming Markets for a Decade @ Cramer Street Car park, Marylebone High Street
81. Jigsaw and Kate Middleton @ 9 Argyll Street
82. Indiana Jones' Hat Shop @ 13 Old Burlington Street, Mayfair
83. Sothebys @ 3435 New Bond Street
84. Hackney Mafia Shoe Shop @ 5 Hackney Road, Bethnal Green, London
85. Retail on the River @ Gabriel's Wharf
86. HMV's first Celebrity Opening @ 363 Oxford Street
87. A Market going down in History @ Harrow Road & Fernhead Road
88. Mr Freedom and Mr Feed em @ 20 Kensington Church Street, Kensington
89. Portobello Road Markets @ Portobello Road
90. The Camden Markets @ Camden Lock Place
91. House of Reeves @ 120 Church Street, Croydon
92. Charing Cross Book Worms @ Charing Cross Road
93. Where the Tricks came from @ 25 New Oxford Street
94. WH Smith lived here @ 12c Hyde Park Street, Bayswater
95. Exchange Alley @ Bank, London
96. Labour and Wait... @ 18 Cheshire Street
97. Tigers in Town @ Oxford Street
98. Cricket in Covent Garden @ 21 Cranbourn Street, Covent Garden, London
99. Magic and Comedy @ 145 Wardour Street
100. Debenhams. a loo with a view @ 334-348 Oxford Street
101. Fox and Lewis @ 19 St James Street, London
102. Handbag Gang Strike Again @ New Bond Street
103. Sally Clarke's @ 122 & 124 Kensington Church Street, Kensington
104. The first Waitrose @ 263 High Street, Acton Hill
105. Monocles - Fashion for Today @ 41 New Cavendish Street
106. Radical booksellers since 1945 @ 5 Caledonian Road
107. Chrisp Street Market @ Chrisp Street, Poplar
108. Liberty @ Regent Street, London
109. Experts in Retro @ 4 Nettlefold Place
110. Quercus - Publishing Revelation @ 21 Bloomsbury Square, Bloomsbury
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