retail Top Retail-related places to visit in London.

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 first ever Tesco @ 9 Watling Avenue, Burnt Oak
12. Raymond's Revue Bar @ 11 Walkers Court, Brewer Street, Soho, London
13. Westfield Stratford City East @ Montfichet Road, Olympic Park
14. John Lobb Bootmakers @ 9 St. James's Street, London
15. Floris Perfumerie @ 89 Jermyn Street, London
16. Retail on the River @ Gabriel's Wharf
17. HMV's first Celebrity Opening @ 363 Oxford Street
18. Binks in Bates @ 21a Jermyn Street, St. James's, London
19. Scandinavian Food for All @ 61 Great Titchfield Street
20. Hamleys Toy Store @ 188 - 196 Regent Street
21. Handbag Gang Strike Again @ New Bond Street
22. Whiteleys: Shopping was Murder @ Queensway, London
23. Once a great Music Venue @ 246 Hackney Road
24. Yuletide Food with French Flair @ 202 Upper Street, Islington
25. The Demon Barber of Fleet Street @ 186 Fleet Street, London
26. Mary Quant's Bazaar @ Markham House, 138a King's Road, Chelsea
27. The Oldest Bank in London @ Child's Bank, 1 Fleet Street, London
28. Coal Drops Yard @ Kings Cross
29. The General Trading Stores @ 26 Symons Street, Sloane Square, London
30. A Market steeped in History @ Leather Lane
31. Simply Sausages @ Harts Corner, 341 London Central Markets
32. Monocles - Fashion for Today @ 41 New Cavendish Street
33. Angels and Bermans @ 119 Shaftesbury Avenue, London
34. Quercus - Publishing Revelation @ 21 Bloomsbury Square, Bloomsbury
35. Bagels while you Shop @ Nicole Farhi, 202 Westbourne Grove
36. Seven Dials (nee Six) @ Monmouth Street, Covent Garden, London
37. The Old Curiosity Shop @ 13-14 Portsmouth Street, London
38. The Beatles Apple Shop @ 94 Baker Street, London
39. R. Soles of London @ 109A Kings Road, Chelsea
40. Maple House @ 149 Tottenham Court Road
41. Richard Branson born here @ Stonefield Nursing Home, 904 Sidcup Road, London
42. The Sights of Soho @ Meard Street, Soho
43. Virgin Born Here @ 2 Symons Street, London
44. Market...stop shouting, go Shop @ Stadium Car Park, Engineers Way
45. Habitat & Joseph's First Home @ 77 Fulham Road, Chelsea
46. Jimmy Greaves Sports Shop @ 1 New Road, South Chingford
47. Treadwell's Bookshop @ 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury
48. Orwell's Booklovers Corner @ 1 South End Road, Hampstead, London
49. Bloodgate Source @ 268 Lavender Hill, London
50. McLaren and Westwood's SEX @ 430 Kings Road, London
51. Tomorrow Never Dies Car Chase @ Brent Cross Car Park, Brent Cross
52. London's Most Female Street @ Sloane Street, Knightsbridge, London
53. Woolwich Works @ The Fireworks Factory, 11 No 1 St, Royal Arsenal
54. The First McDonalds in UK @ Powis Street, Woolwich
55. Former Toilet for your Jeweller @ 58 Davies Street
56. Electric Avenue @ Electric Avenue, Brixton, London
57. Pink Floyd's Drum Shop @ 41 Store Street, Bloomsbury
58. Facts on Selfridges @ 400 Oxford Street
59. The Westfield London @ Shepherd's Bush, London
60. Gong...Notting Hill @ 142 Portobello Road
61. Walthamstow Market @ Hoe Street to St James's Street
62. Agnes Marshalls Food Empire @ 32 Mortimer Street, Fitzrovia
63. Hackney Mafia Shoe Shop @ 5 Hackney Road, Bethnal Green, London
64. Massage...on your time @ Neal's Yard, Covent Garden
65. Magic, Gizmos & FUN @ 246 High Holborn
66. Jigsaw and Kate Middleton @ 9 Argyll Street
67. Winfield House @ North West Regents Park, London
68. Merlin's Cave @ Carlisle House, Soho Square, London
69. Anderson & Sheppard @ 17 Clifford Street, Mayfair
70. Tantalise those Taste Buds @ 38 Tavistock Street, Covent Garden
71. Cupcakes in Kensington @ 132 Kensington Church Street
72. The Camden Markets @ Camden Lock Place
73. Harrods @ 87-135 Brompton Road, Knightsbridge
74. House of Reeves @ 120 Church Street, Croydon
75. Tip-Top Umbrellas @ James Smith & Sons, 53 New Oxford Street
76. Sylvia's Suffragette Shop @ 198 Bow Road, Bow, London
77. Sainsbury's started here @ 173 Drury Lane, Holborn, London
78. Old Spitalfields Market @ 16 Horner Square, Spitalfields
79. Feel the fibre of the fabric @ Joel & Son Fabrics, 75-83 Church Street
80. Is This The New Portobello? @ Lower Marsh
81. What no Drugs? @ 101 Leather Lane
82. Faraday's Apprenticeship @ 48 Blandford Street, Marylebone, London
83. Where Do I Find Good Beer? @ Stoke Newington Church Street
84. Sally Clarke's @ 122 & 124 Kensington Church Street, Kensington
85. ExCel London @ Custom House, Docklands
86. Garrards Jewellers @ 24 Albemarle Street, Mayfair
87. Grand Seraglio... What? @ Covent Garden
88. Bethnal Green...a Snatch @ 88 Teesdale Street
89. WH Smith lived here @ 12c Hyde Park Street, Bayswater
90. The first Waitrose @ 263 High Street, Acton Hill
91. Birch's Immortal Shop @ 15 Cornhill, London
92. The Shop the Looters Ignored @ 70-72 St John's Road, Clapham
93. Exchange Alley @ Bank, London
94. Tigers in Town @ Oxford Street
95. Cricket in Covent Garden @ 21 Cranbourn Street, Covent Garden, London
96. Churchill's Favourite for Cheese @ 93 Jermyn Street
97. Magic and Comedy @ 145 Wardour Street
98. Home to the Geisha Kimonos @ 1-7 Davies Mews
99. Good Gifts in a Tree @ 53 Exmouth Market
100. Farming Markets for a Decade @ Cramer Street Car park, Marylebone High Street
101. Mr Freedom and Mr Feed em @ 20 Kensington Church Street, Kensington
102. Experts in Retro @ 4 Nettlefold Place
103. The East Ends most famous market @ Petticoat Lane
104. Feeling Honourable? @ 86 Lower Marsh, Lambeth
105. Making Cake since the 1900s @ 111 Sydenham Road
106. Catch the best fishmongers @ 88-90 Essex Road
107. Leadenhall Market @ 48-51 Leadenhall Market
108. The Great Pearl Robbery @ 88 Hatton Garden, Holborn
109. The World's First Ever Cashpoint @ 20 The Town, Enfield
110. Radical booksellers since 1945 @ 5 Caledonian Road