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 McDonalds in UK @ Powis Street, Woolwich
12. The Old Curiosity Shop @ 13-14 Portsmouth Street, London
13. Magic, Gizmos & FUN @ 246 High Holborn
14. The First Shop in the World @ 25 Nelson Road, Greenwich, London
15. Raymond's Revue Bar @ 11 Walkers Court, Brewer Street, Soho, London
16. The World's First Ever Cashpoint @ 20 The Town, Enfield
17. The Oldest Bank in London @ Child's Bank, 1 Fleet Street, London
18. Agnes Marshalls Food Empire @ 32 Mortimer Street, Fitzrovia
19. Cricket in Covent Garden @ 21 Cranbourn Street, Covent Garden, London
20. The General Trading Stores @ 26 Symons Street, Sloane Square, London
21. Making Cake since the 1900s @ 111 Sydenham Road
22. Old Spitalfields Market @ 16 Horner Square, Spitalfields
23. Where the Tricks came from @ 25 New Oxford Street
24. Quercus - Publishing Revelation @ 21 Bloomsbury Square, Bloomsbury
25. Binks in Bates @ 21a Jermyn Street, St. James's, London
26. Virgin Born Here @ 2 Symons Street, London
27. House of Reeves @ 120 Church Street, Croydon
28. McLaren and Westwood's SEX @ 430 Kings Road, London
29. Charing Cross Book Worms @ Charing Cross Road
30. Treadwell's Bookshop @ 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury
31. The Year Round Christmas Shop @ Hays Galleria, 55a Tooley Street, London
32. Catch the best fishmongers @ 88-90 Essex Road
33. Seven Dials (nee Six) @ Monmouth Street, Covent Garden, London
34. Richard Branson Lived here @ 11 Holland Park, London
35. Merlin's Cave @ Carlisle House, Soho Square, London
36. Sylvia's Suffragette Shop @ 198 Bow Road, Bow, London
37. Tantalise those Taste Buds @ 38 Tavistock Street, Covent Garden
38. Harrods @ 87-135 Brompton Road, Knightsbridge
39. Electric Avenue @ Electric Avenue, Brixton, London
40. Gong...Notting Hill @ 142 Portobello Road
41. Simply Sausages @ Harts Corner, 341 London Central Markets
42. The first ever Tesco @ 9 Watling Avenue, Burnt Oak
43. Sainsbury's started here @ 173 Drury Lane, Holborn, London
44. The Shop the Looters Ignored @ 70-72 St John's Road, Clapham
45. Exchange Alley @ Bank, London
46. Pink Floyd's Drum Shop @ 41 Store Street, Bloomsbury
47. Market...stop shouting, go Shop @ Stadium Car Park, Engineers Way
48. Once there were Herrings @ 137 Cannon Street
49. Home to the Geisha Kimonos @ 1-7 Davies Mews
50. Kristin Baybars Toyshop @ 7 Mansfield Road, Gospel Oak
51. Tip-Top Umbrellas @ James Smith & Sons, 53 New Oxford Street
52. Walk In Back Rub @ 11 Charlotte Place
53. Churchill's Favourite for Cheese @ 93 Jermyn Street
54. Walthamstow Market @ Hoe Street to St James's Street
55. Retail on the River @ Gabriel's Wharf
56. Anderson & Sheppard @ 17 Clifford Street, Mayfair
57. Westfield Stratford City East @ Montfichet Road, Olympic Park
58. The first Waitrose @ 263 High Street, Acton Hill
59. Jimmy Greaves Sports Shop @ 1 New Road, South Chingford
60. Mary Quant's Bazaar @ Markham House, 138a King's Road, Chelsea
61. Facts on Selfridges @ 400 Oxford Street
62. Bagels while you Shop @ Nicole Farhi, 202 Westbourne Grove
63. White's Chocolate House @ 69 St. James Street
64. Jigsaw and Kate Middleton @ 9 Argyll Street
65. Truefitt and Hill @ 71 St. James's Street, Mayfair
66. She's in Fashion... @ 51 Endell Street, Covent Garden
67. Coal Drops Yard @ Kings Cross
68. Sally Clarke's @ 122 & 124 Kensington Church Street, Kensington
69. Birch's Immortal Shop @ 15 Cornhill, London
70. Handbag Gang Strike Again @ New Bond Street
71. HMV's first Celebrity Opening @ 363 Oxford Street
72. Farming Markets for a Decade @ Cramer Street Car park, Marylebone High Street
73. Debenhams. a loo with a view @ 334-348 Oxford Street
74. Winfield House @ North West Regents Park, London
75. Floris Perfumerie @ 89 Jermyn Street, London
76. Good Gifts in a Tree @ 53 Exmouth Market
77. Portobello Road Markets @ Portobello Road
78. Feel the fibre of the fabric @ Joel & Son Fabrics, 75-83 Church Street
79. Chrisp Street Market @ Chrisp Street, Poplar
80. Orwell's Booklovers Corner @ 1 South End Road, Hampstead, London
81. Tea, Tea, Glorious Tea @ 45 Berwick Street, Soho
82. Once a great Music Venue @ 246 Hackney Road
83. John Lobb Bootmakers @ 9 St. James's Street, London
84. Monocles - Fashion for Today @ 41 New Cavendish Street
85. The Kensington Poltergeist @ 20 Bute Street, South Kensington, London
86. Seven Sisters Market @ Pueblito Paisa, 231 High Road, Seven Sisters, Lo
87. The Westfield London @ Shepherd's Bush, London
88. Bloodgate Source @ 268 Lavender Hill, London
89. The Camden Markets @ Camden Lock Place
90. Woolwich Works @ The Fireworks Factory, 11 No 1 St, Royal Arsenal
91. Fox and Lewis @ 19 St James Street, London
92. Labour and Wait... @ 18 Cheshire Street
93. Hackney Mafia Shoe Shop @ 5 Hackney Road, Bethnal Green, London
94. London's only Antique Dept Store @ 150 Chiswick High Road
95. Tomorrow Never Dies Car Chase @ Brent Cross Car Park, Brent Cross
96. Maple House @ 149 Tottenham Court Road
97. Experts in Retro @ 4 Nettlefold Place
98. Feeling Honourable? @ 86 Lower Marsh, Lambeth
99. Where Do I Find Good Beer? @ Stoke Newington Church Street
100. Is This The New Portobello? @ Lower Marsh
101. Scandinavian Food for All @ 61 Great Titchfield Street
102. Radical booksellers since 1945 @ 5 Caledonian Road
103. Richard Branson born here @ Stonefield Nursing Home, 904 Sidcup Road, London
104. Cupcakes in Kensington @ 132 Kensington Church Street
105. Habitat & Joseph's First Home @ 77 Fulham Road, Chelsea
106. Faraday's Apprenticeship @ 48 Blandford Street, Marylebone, London
107. 80 years and still Dancing @ 94 St Martin's Lane
108. Trinkets, Gems and Tourists @ Covent Garden
109. R. Soles of London @ 109A Kings Road, Chelsea
110. Former Toilet for your Jeweller @ 58 Davies Street