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. Mrs Salmon's Waxworks @ 17 Chancery Lane
12. The first ever Tesco @ 9 Watling Avenue, Burnt Oak
13. The Year Round Christmas Shop @ Hays Galleria, 55a Tooley Street, London
14. Simply Sausages @ Harts Corner, 341 London Central Markets
15. Whiteleys: Shopping was Murder @ Queensway, London
16. The Oldest Bank in London @ Child's Bank, 1 Fleet Street, London
17. Richard Branson Lived here @ 11 Holland Park, London
18. Binks in Bates @ 21a Jermyn Street, St. James's, London
19. The first Waitrose @ 263 High Street, Acton Hill
20. Treadwell's Bookshop @ 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury
21. Sainsbury's started here @ 173 Drury Lane, Holborn, London
22. Jimmy Greaves Sports Shop @ 1 New Road, South Chingford
23. Orwell's Booklovers Corner @ 1 South End Road, Hampstead, London
24. Walthamstow Market @ Hoe Street to St James's Street
25. Hamleys Toy Store @ 188 - 196 Regent Street
26. The Demon Barber of Fleet Street @ 186 Fleet Street, London
27. Merlin's Cave @ Carlisle House, Soho Square, London
28. Truefitt and Hill @ 71 St. James's Street, Mayfair
29. The Beatles Apple Shop @ 94 Baker Street, London
30. White's Chocolate House @ 69 St. James Street
31. HMV's first Celebrity Opening @ 363 Oxford Street
32. House of Reeves @ 120 Church Street, Croydon
33. Seven Dials (nee Six) @ Monmouth Street, Covent Garden, London
34. Winfield House @ North West Regents Park, London
35. Old Spitalfields Market @ 16 Horner Square, Spitalfields
36. The Great Pearl Robbery @ 88 Hatton Garden, Holborn
37. Maple House @ 149 Tottenham Court Road
38. London's Finest Recordshop @ 1 Earlham Street
39. Westfield Stratford City East @ Montfichet Road, Olympic Park
40. McLaren and Westwood's SEX @ 430 Kings Road, London
41. The First Shop in the World @ 25 Nelson Road, Greenwich, London
42. Walk In Back Rub @ 11 Charlotte Place
43. Woolwich Works @ The Fireworks Factory, 11 No 1 St, Royal Arsenal
44. Gong...Notting Hill @ 142 Portobello Road
45. Tea, Tea, Glorious Tea @ 45 Berwick Street, Soho
46. Fox and Lewis @ 19 St James Street, London
47. Habitat & Joseph's First Home @ 77 Fulham Road, Chelsea
48. Jigsaw and Kate Middleton @ 9 Argyll Street
49. Cricket in Covent Garden @ 21 Cranbourn Street, Covent Garden, London
50. Once a great Music Venue @ 246 Hackney Road
51. Exchange Alley @ Bank, London
52. The World's First Ever Cashpoint @ 20 The Town, Enfield
53. Market...stop shouting, go Shop @ Stadium Car Park, Engineers Way
54. Garrards Jewellers @ 24 Albemarle Street, Mayfair
55. Birch's Immortal Shop @ 15 Cornhill, London
56. Tantalise those Taste Buds @ 38 Tavistock Street, Covent Garden
57. Magic, Gizmos & FUN @ 246 High Holborn
58. The Sights of Soho @ Meard Street, Soho
59. Feel the fibre of the fabric @ Joel & Son Fabrics, 75-83 Church Street
60. Monocles - Fashion for Today @ 41 New Cavendish Street
61. Bagels while you Shop @ Nicole Farhi, 202 Westbourne Grove
62. Seven Sisters Market @ Pueblito Paisa, 231 High Road, Seven Sisters, Lo
63. Harrods @ 87-135 Brompton Road, Knightsbridge
64. Tomorrow Never Dies Car Chase @ Brent Cross Car Park, Brent Cross
65. Good Gifts in a Tree @ 53 Exmouth Market
66. The Shop the Looters Ignored @ 70-72 St John's Road, Clapham
67. Chrisp Street Market @ Chrisp Street, Poplar
68. Sylvia's Suffragette Shop @ 198 Bow Road, Bow, London
69. Making Cake since the 1900s @ 111 Sydenham Road
70. She's in Fashion... @ 51 Endell Street, Covent Garden
71. Anderson & Sheppard @ 17 Clifford Street, Mayfair
72. Floris Perfumerie @ 89 Jermyn Street, London
73. R. Soles of London @ 109A Kings Road, Chelsea
74. Where the Tricks came from @ 25 New Oxford Street
75. Raymond's Revue Bar @ 11 Walkers Court, Brewer Street, Soho, London
76. John Lobb Bootmakers @ 9 St. James's Street, London
77. Labour and Wait... @ 18 Cheshire Street
78. London's only Antique Dept Store @ 150 Chiswick High Road
79. Facts on Selfridges @ 400 Oxford Street
80. The First McDonalds in UK @ Powis Street, Woolwich
81. Magic and Comedy @ 145 Wardour Street
82. Leadenhall Market @ 48-51 Leadenhall Market
83. Liberty @ Regent Street, London
84. Bethnal Green...a Snatch @ 88 Teesdale Street
85. Massage...on your time @ Neal's Yard, Covent Garden
86. Where Do I Find Good Beer? @ Stoke Newington Church Street
87. The Camden Markets @ Camden Lock Place
88. Churchill's Favourite for Cheese @ 93 Jermyn Street
89. The Westfield London @ Shepherd's Bush, London
90. Experts in Retro @ 4 Nettlefold Place
91. Debenhams. a loo with a view @ 334-348 Oxford Street
92. WH Smith lived here @ 12c Hyde Park Street, Bayswater
93. Kristin Baybars Toyshop @ 7 Mansfield Road, Gospel Oak
94. Handbag Gang Strike Again @ New Bond Street
95. Agnes Marshalls Food Empire @ 32 Mortimer Street, Fitzrovia
96. Sally Clarke's @ 122 & 124 Kensington Church Street, Kensington
97. Retail on the River @ Gabriel's Wharf
98. ExCel London @ Custom House, Docklands
99. Faraday's Apprenticeship @ 48 Blandford Street, Marylebone, London
100. Hackney Mafia Shoe Shop @ 5 Hackney Road, Bethnal Green, London
101. Radical booksellers since 1945 @ 5 Caledonian Road
102. Yuletide Food with French Flair @ 202 Upper Street, Islington
103. London's Most Female Street @ Sloane Street, Knightsbridge, London
104. Pink Floyd's Drum Shop @ 41 Store Street, Bloomsbury
105. Richard Branson born here @ Stonefield Nursing Home, 904 Sidcup Road, London
106. Farming Markets for a Decade @ Cramer Street Car park, Marylebone High Street
107. Bloodgate Source @ 268 Lavender Hill, London
108. Home to the Geisha Kimonos @ 1-7 Davies Mews
109. Portobello Road Markets @ Portobello Road
110. Tip-Top Umbrellas @ James Smith & Sons, 53 New Oxford Street