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. Jimmy Greaves Sports Shop @ 1 New Road, South Chingford
12. The General Trading Stores @ 26 Symons Street, Sloane Square, London
13. White's Chocolate House @ 69 St. James Street
14. George Wombwell's Menagerie @ Old Compton Street
15. Richard Branson Lived here @ 11 Holland Park, London
16. McLaren and Westwood's SEX @ 430 Kings Road, London
17. The Beatles Apple Shop @ 94 Baker Street, London
18. Woolwich Works @ The Fireworks Factory, 11 No 1 St, Royal Arsenal
19. The first Waitrose @ 263 High Street, Acton Hill
20. Mrs Salmon's Waxworks @ 17 Chancery Lane
21. Orwell's Booklovers Corner @ 1 South End Road, Hampstead, London
22. The first ever Tesco @ 9 Watling Avenue, Burnt Oak
23. Raymond's Revue Bar @ 11 Walkers Court, Brewer Street, Soho, London
24. The Oldest Bank in London @ Child's Bank, 1 Fleet Street, London
25. Treadwell's Bookshop @ 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury
26. Maple House @ 149 Tottenham Court Road
27. Cricket in Covent Garden @ 21 Cranbourn Street, Covent Garden, London
28. Merlin's Cave @ Carlisle House, Soho Square, London
29. The Old Curiosity Shop @ 13-14 Portsmouth Street, London
30. The World's First Ever Cashpoint @ 20 The Town, Enfield
31. The Great Pearl Robbery @ 88 Hatton Garden, Holborn
32. Gong...Notting Hill @ 142 Portobello Road
33. John Lobb Bootmakers @ 9 St. James's Street, London
34. Coal Drops Yard @ Kings Cross
35. Sothebys @ 3435 New Bond Street
36. Old Spitalfields Market @ 16 Horner Square, Spitalfields
37. Truefitt and Hill @ 71 St. James's Street, Mayfair
38. Binks in Bates @ 21a Jermyn Street, St. James's, London
39. Once a great Music Venue @ 246 Hackney Road
40. Where the Tricks came from @ 25 New Oxford Street
41. Garrards Jewellers @ 24 Albemarle Street, Mayfair
42. Facts on Selfridges @ 400 Oxford Street
43. Westfield Stratford City East @ Montfichet Road, Olympic Park
44. Electric Avenue @ Electric Avenue, Brixton, London
45. Magic, Gizmos & FUN @ 246 High Holborn
46. Leadenhall Market @ 48-51 Leadenhall Market
47. Sally Clarke's @ 122 & 124 Kensington Church Street, Kensington
48. Birch's Immortal Shop @ 15 Cornhill, London
49. Making Cake since the 1900s @ 111 Sydenham Road
50. Tomorrow Never Dies Car Chase @ Brent Cross Car Park, Brent Cross
51. R. Soles of London @ 109A Kings Road, Chelsea
52. Winfield House @ North West Regents Park, London
53. HMV's first Celebrity Opening @ 363 Oxford Street
54. Tantalise those Taste Buds @ 38 Tavistock Street, Covent Garden
55. Seven Sisters Market @ Pueblito Paisa, 231 High Road, Seven Sisters, Lo
56. Churchill's Favourite for Cheese @ 93 Jermyn Street
57. Richard Branson born here @ Stonefield Nursing Home, 904 Sidcup Road, London
58. Seven Dials (nee Six) @ Monmouth Street, Covent Garden, London
59. Exchange Alley @ Bank, London
60. Bethnal Green...a Snatch @ 88 Teesdale Street
61. A Market steeped in History @ Leather Lane
62. Jigsaw and Kate Middleton @ 9 Argyll Street
63. Faraday's Apprenticeship @ 48 Blandford Street, Marylebone, London
64. Simply Sausages @ Harts Corner, 341 London Central Markets
65. House of Reeves @ 120 Church Street, Croydon
66. London's only Antique Dept Store @ 150 Chiswick High Road
67. ExCel London @ Custom House, Docklands
68. Sainsbury's started here @ 173 Drury Lane, Holborn, London
69. The Shop the Looters Ignored @ 70-72 St John's Road, Clapham
70. Tigers in Town @ Oxford Street
71. Floris Perfumerie @ 89 Jermyn Street, London
72. Agnes Marshalls Food Empire @ 32 Mortimer Street, Fitzrovia
73. Walthamstow Market @ Hoe Street to St James's Street
74. Charing Cross Book Worms @ Charing Cross Road
75. London's Finest Recordshop @ 1 Earlham Street
76. Grand Seraglio... What? @ Covent Garden
77. Bagels while you Shop @ Nicole Farhi, 202 Westbourne Grove
78. Portobello Road Markets @ Portobello Road
79. Labour and Wait... @ 18 Cheshire Street
80. Kristin Baybars Toyshop @ 7 Mansfield Road, Gospel Oak
81. Radical booksellers since 1945 @ 5 Caledonian Road
82. Bloodgate Source @ 268 Lavender Hill, London
83. Magic and Comedy @ 145 Wardour Street
84. Sylvia's Suffragette Shop @ 198 Bow Road, Bow, London
85. House of the Mystery Hat @ Goldhawk Road
86. Habitat & Joseph's First Home @ 77 Fulham Road, Chelsea
87. Mr Freedom and Mr Feed em @ 20 Kensington Church Street, Kensington
88. Fox and Lewis @ 19 St James Street, London
89. Retail on the River @ Gabriel's Wharf
90. Trinkets, Gems and Tourists @ Covent Garden
91. Cupcakes in Kensington @ 132 Kensington Church Street
92. Quercus - Publishing Revelation @ 21 Bloomsbury Square, Bloomsbury
93. Harrods @ 87-135 Brompton Road, Knightsbridge
94. Hackney Mafia Shoe Shop @ 5 Hackney Road, Bethnal Green, London
95. Monocles - Fashion for Today @ 41 New Cavendish Street
96. Tip-Top Umbrellas @ James Smith & Sons, 53 New Oxford Street
97. The Camden Markets @ Camden Lock Place
98. Scandinavian Food for All @ 61 Great Titchfield Street
99. Chrisp Street Market @ Chrisp Street, Poplar
100. Tea, Tea, Glorious Tea @ 45 Berwick Street, Soho
101. Catch the best fishmongers @ 88-90 Essex Road
102. Where Do I Find Good Beer? @ Stoke Newington Church Street
103. Is This The New Portobello? @ Lower Marsh
104. The First Shop in the World @ 25 Nelson Road, Greenwich, London
105. The East Ends most famous market @ Petticoat Lane
106. The Westfield London @ Shepherd's Bush, London
107. She's in Fashion... @ 51 Endell Street, Covent Garden
108. Pink Floyd's Drum Shop @ 41 Store Street, Bloomsbury
109. The Sights of Soho @ Meard Street, Soho
110. Home to the Geisha Kimonos @ 1-7 Davies Mews