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!
MORE RETAIL SIGHTS:
11. Gong...Notting Hill @ 142 Portobello Road
12. George Wombwell's Menagerie @ Old Compton Street
13. The first ever Tesco @ 9 Watling Avenue, Burnt Oak
14. Binks in Bates @ 21a Jermyn Street, St. James's, London
15. The Oldest Bank in London @ Child's Bank, 1 Fleet Street, London
16. Treadwell's Bookshop @ 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury
17. Jimmy Greaves Sports Shop @ 1 New Road, South Chingford
18. Hamleys Toy Store @ 188 - 196 Regent Street
19. The first Waitrose @ 263 High Street, Acton Hill
20. The First Shop in the World @ 25 Nelson Road, Greenwich, London
21. Whiteleys: Shopping was Murder @ Queensway, London
22. Woolwich Works @ The Fireworks Factory, 11 No 1 St, Royal Arsenal
23. Merlin's Cave @ Carlisle House, Soho Square, London
24. Maple House @ 149 Tottenham Court Road
25. Truefitt and Hill @ 71 St. James's Street, Mayfair
26. Mary Quant's Bazaar @ Markham House, 138a King's Road, Chelsea
27. Mrs Salmon's Waxworks @ 17 Chancery Lane
28. Orwell's Booklovers Corner @ 1 South End Road, Hampstead, London
29. R. Soles of London @ 109A Kings Road, Chelsea
30. Making Cake since the 1900s @ 111 Sydenham Road
31. Sothebys @ 3435 New Bond Street
32. The Demon Barber of Fleet Street @ 186 Fleet Street, London
33. Labour and Wait... @ 18 Cheshire Street
34. Facts on Selfridges @ 400 Oxford Street
35. London's Finest Recordshop @ 1 Earlham Street
36. Habitat & Joseph's First Home @ 77 Fulham Road, Chelsea
37. Harrods @ 87-135 Brompton Road, Knightsbridge
38. Coal Drops Yard @ Kings Cross
39. Simply Sausages @ Harts Corner, 341 London Central Markets
40. The Old Curiosity Shop @ 13-14 Portsmouth Street, London
41. A Market going down in History @ Harrow Road & Fernhead Road
42. The Great Pearl Robbery @ 88 Hatton Garden, Holborn
43. Old Spitalfields Market @ 16 Horner Square, Spitalfields
44. Former Toilet for your Jeweller @ 58 Davies Street
45. Westfield Stratford City East @ Montfichet Road, Olympic Park
46. Walthamstow Market @ Hoe Street to St James's Street
47. The East Ends most famous market @ Petticoat Lane
48. John Lobb Bootmakers @ 9 St. James's Street, London
49. The Beatles Apple Shop @ 94 Baker Street, London
50. The First McDonalds in UK @ Powis Street, Woolwich
51. Churchill's Favourite for Cheese @ 93 Jermyn Street
52. Birch's Immortal Shop @ 15 Cornhill, London
53. Bethnal Green...a Snatch @ 88 Teesdale Street
54. Pink Floyd's Drum Shop @ 41 Store Street, Bloomsbury
55. Electric Avenue @ Electric Avenue, Brixton, London
56. The World's First Ever Cashpoint @ 20 The Town, Enfield
57. HMV's first Celebrity Opening @ 363 Oxford Street
58. Scandinavian Food for All @ 61 Great Titchfield Street
59. Market...stop shouting, go Shop @ Stadium Car Park, Engineers Way
60. Tea, Tea, Glorious Tea @ 45 Berwick Street, Soho
61. Feeling Honourable? @ 86 Lower Marsh, Lambeth
62. Leadenhall Market @ 48-51 Leadenhall Market
63. Where Do I Find Good Beer? @ Stoke Newington Church Street
64. Monocles - Fashion for Today @ 41 New Cavendish Street
65. Sylvia's Suffragette Shop @ 198 Bow Road, Bow, London
66. Cricket in Covent Garden @ 21 Cranbourn Street, Covent Garden, London
67. White's Chocolate House @ 69 St. James Street
68. Where the Tricks came from @ 25 New Oxford Street
69. Catch the best fishmongers @ 88-90 Essex Road
70. London's Most Female Street @ Sloane Street, Knightsbridge, London
71. Portobello Road Markets @ Portobello Road
72. Winfield House @ North West Regents Park, London
73. Massage...on your time @ Neal's Yard, Covent Garden
74. Feel the fibre of the fabric @ Joel & Son Fabrics, 75-83 Church Street
75. Grand Seraglio... What? @ Covent Garden
76. ExCel London @ Custom House, Docklands
77. Virgin Born Here @ 2 Symons Street, London
78. Good Gifts in a Tree @ 53 Exmouth Market
79. She's in Fashion... @ 51 Endell Street, Covent Garden
80. Exchange Alley @ Bank, London
81. Is This The New Portobello? @ Lower Marsh
82. Bagels while you Shop @ Nicole Farhi, 202 Westbourne Grove
83. The Westfield London @ Shepherd's Bush, London
84. Richard Branson born here @ Stonefield Nursing Home, 904 Sidcup Road, London
85. Sainsbury's started here @ 173 Drury Lane, Holborn, London
86. Farming Markets for a Decade @ Cramer Street Car park, Marylebone High Street
87. A Market steeped in History @ Leather Lane
88. Magic, Gizmos & FUN @ 246 High Holborn
89. Magic and Comedy @ 145 Wardour Street
90. The Sights of Soho @ Meard Street, Soho
91. The Shop the Looters Ignored @ 70-72 St John's Road, Clapham
92. Kristin Baybars Toyshop @ 7 Mansfield Road, Gospel Oak
93. Floris Perfumerie @ 89 Jermyn Street, London
94. McLaren and Westwood's SEX @ 430 Kings Road, London
95. Faraday's Apprenticeship @ 48 Blandford Street, Marylebone, London
96. Trinkets, Gems and Tourists @ Covent Garden
97. WH Smith lived here @ 12c Hyde Park Street, Bayswater
98. House of the Mystery Hat @ Goldhawk Road
99. Cupcakes in Kensington @ 132 Kensington Church Street
100. Sally Clarke's @ 122 & 124 Kensington Church Street, Kensington
101. Debenhams. a loo with a view @ 334-348 Oxford Street
102. Fox and Lewis @ 19 St James Street, London
103. Tip-Top Umbrellas @ James Smith & Sons, 53 New Oxford Street
104. Once a great Music Venue @ 246 Hackney Road
105. Garrards Jewellers @ 24 Albemarle Street, Mayfair
106. Hackney Mafia Shoe Shop @ 5 Hackney Road, Bethnal Green, London
107. London's only Antique Dept Store @ 150 Chiswick High Road
108. Retail on the River @ Gabriel's Wharf
109. What no Drugs? @ 101 Leather Lane
110. House of Reeves @ 120 Church Street, Croydon
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