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 Oldest Bank in London @ Child's Bank, 1 Fleet Street, London
17. Agnes Marshalls Food Empire @ 32 Mortimer Street, Fitzrovia
18. The World's First Ever Cashpoint @ 20 The Town, Enfield
19. The General Trading Stores @ 26 Symons Street, Sloane Square, London
20. Making Cake since the 1900s @ 111 Sydenham Road
21. Old Spitalfields Market @ 16 Horner Square, Spitalfields
22. Cricket in Covent Garden @ 21 Cranbourn Street, Covent Garden, London
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. McLaren and Westwood's SEX @ 430 Kings Road, London
28. House of Reeves @ 120 Church Street, Croydon
29. Charing Cross Book Worms @ Charing Cross Road
30. The Year Round Christmas Shop @ Hays Galleria, 55a Tooley Street, London
31. Catch the best fishmongers @ 88-90 Essex Road
32. Seven Dials (nee Six) @ Monmouth Street, Covent Garden, London
33. Richard Branson Lived here @ 11 Holland Park, London
34. Treadwell's Bookshop @ 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury
35. Merlin's Cave @ Carlisle House, Soho Square, London
36. Tantalise those Taste Buds @ 38 Tavistock Street, Covent Garden
37. Harrods @ 87-135 Brompton Road, Knightsbridge
38. Electric Avenue @ Electric Avenue, Brixton, London
39. Sylvia's Suffragette Shop @ 198 Bow Road, Bow, London
40. Gong...Notting Hill @ 142 Portobello Road
41. The first ever Tesco @ 9 Watling Avenue, Burnt Oak
42. Sainsbury's started here @ 173 Drury Lane, Holborn, London
43. The Shop the Looters Ignored @ 70-72 St John's Road, Clapham
44. Exchange Alley @ Bank, London
45. Pink Floyd's Drum Shop @ 41 Store Street, Bloomsbury
46. Simply Sausages @ Harts Corner, 341 London Central Markets
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. Walk In Back Rub @ 11 Charlotte Place
52. Churchill's Favourite for Cheese @ 93 Jermyn Street
53. Walthamstow Market @ Hoe Street to St James's Street
54. Anderson & Sheppard @ 17 Clifford Street, Mayfair
55. Tip-Top Umbrellas @ James Smith & Sons, 53 New Oxford Street
56. Retail on the River @ Gabriel's Wharf
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. Truefitt and Hill @ 71 St. James's Street, Mayfair
61. Mary Quant's Bazaar @ Markham House, 138a King's Road, Chelsea
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. Facts on Selfridges @ 400 Oxford Street
66. She's in Fashion... @ 51 Endell Street, Covent Garden
67. Sally Clarke's @ 122 & 124 Kensington Church Street, Kensington
68. Birch's Immortal Shop @ 15 Cornhill, London
69. Handbag Gang Strike Again @ New Bond Street
70. HMV's first Celebrity Opening @ 363 Oxford Street
71. Farming Markets for a Decade @ Cramer Street Car park, Marylebone High Street
72. Coal Drops Yard @ Kings Cross
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. Feel the fibre of the fabric @ Joel & Son Fabrics, 75-83 Church Street
78. Chrisp Street Market @ Chrisp Street, Poplar
79. Orwell's Booklovers Corner @ 1 South End Road, Hampstead, London
80. Tea, Tea, Glorious Tea @ 45 Berwick Street, Soho
81. Once a great Music Venue @ 246 Hackney Road
82. Portobello Road Markets @ Portobello Road
83. Monocles - Fashion for Today @ 41 New Cavendish Street
84. The Kensington Poltergeist @ 20 Bute Street, South Kensington, London
85. Seven Sisters Market @ Pueblito Paisa, 231 High Road, Seven Sisters, Lo
86. The Westfield London @ Shepherd's Bush, London
87. The Camden Markets @ Camden Lock Place
88. John Lobb Bootmakers @ 9 St. James's Street, London
89. Fox and Lewis @ 19 St James Street, London
90. Labour and Wait... @ 18 Cheshire Street
91. Hackney Mafia Shoe Shop @ 5 Hackney Road, Bethnal Green, London
92. London's only Antique Dept Store @ 150 Chiswick High Road
93. Tomorrow Never Dies Car Chase @ Brent Cross Car Park, Brent Cross
94. Maple House @ 149 Tottenham Court Road
95. Bloodgate Source @ 268 Lavender Hill, London
96. Woolwich Works @ The Fireworks Factory, 11 No 1 St, Royal Arsenal
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. Habitat & Joseph's First Home @ 77 Fulham Road, Chelsea
103. Faraday's Apprenticeship @ 48 Blandford Street, Marylebone, London
104. 80 years and still Dancing @ 94 St Martin's Lane
105. Radical booksellers since 1945 @ 5 Caledonian Road
106. Richard Branson born here @ Stonefield Nursing Home, 904 Sidcup Road, London
107. Cupcakes in Kensington @ 132 Kensington Church Street
108. Trinkets, Gems and Tourists @ Covent Garden
109. R. Soles of London @ 109A Kings Road, Chelsea
110. Garrards Jewellers @ 24 Albemarle Street, Mayfair