Shops & Markets

Featured shops

Foyles
Foyles is London’s largest bookstore, and is famous the world over for its literary lunches.
Selfridges
Selfridges in Oxford Street is one of London’s largest and most famous department stores.

Shops and auction houses

Here is a list of London’s most famous shops and auction houses.

Bonham’s(events) · Christie’s(events) · Fortnum & Mason(events) · Foyles(events) · Hamleys(events) · Harrods(events) · Hatchards(events) · Liberty(events) · Old Curiosity Shop(events) · Selfridges(events) · Sotheby’s(events) · Waterstone’s(events)

Shopping streets and arcades

Here is a list of London’s shopping streets and arcades, full of famous shops…

Bond Street(events) · Burlington Arcade(events) · Carnaby Street(events) · Gabriel’s Wharf(events) · Jermyn Street(events) · Kensington High Street(events) · King’s Road(events) · Oxford Street(events) · Piccadilly(events) · Regent Street(events) · Royal Exchange(events) · Savile Row(events) · Sloane Square(events) · Tobacco Dock(events) · Tottenham Court Road(events) · Trocadero Centre(events)

London shopping guides

The London Market Guide..
Andrew Richard Kershman
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Bargain Hunters' London: All the Best..
Andrew Richard Kershman
Our price: £6.79
Eat.Shop.London: The Indispensable Guide to..
Caroline Loncq
Our price: £6.49

Featured markets

Leadenhall Market
Leadenhall Victorian Market, in the heart of the City, is one of London’s most historic markets.
Portobello Road
London’s Portobello Road Market is famous for selling second-hand clothes and fabulous antiques.

Street markets

Here is a list of London’s most popular street markets and stalls.

Berwick Street(events) · Billingsgate Market(events) · Borough Market(events) · Brick Lane(events) · Camden Market(events) · Leadenhall Market(events) · Leather Lane(events) · Petticoat Lane(events) · Portobello Road(events) · Shepherd Market(events) · Smithfield Market(events) · Spitalfields Market(events)

Latest shopping events

>>  Shops, stalls and market events

Watercolours & Drawings Fair
  • 4th – 8th February 2009
  • The Flower Cellars in Covent Garden is hosting a Watercolors & Drawings Fair. Hundreds of art workds are on sale, from watercolour landscape paintings, to pen and ink, pastel and chalk drawings. Paintings vary widely in price, and their is something for everyone's budget.
Buy music memorabilia, at Olympia Music Mania
  • 24th January 2009
  • Get down to Kensington Olympia for Music Mania 2009. There will be thousands of items for sale -- everything from CDs and vinyl to DVDs, tapes, posters and T-shirts. You'll also be able to get your hands on some old programmes, gold discs, tour jackets and plenty more. Music Mania will be held on the 24th January.
Kensington Antiques & Fine Art Fair
  • 8th – 11th January 2009
  • The Kensington Antiques & Fine Art Fair in Kensington Town Hall will have 55 stands filled with top quality art and antiques -- including pictures, paintings, furniture, sculptures, silver, jewellery and ceramics figures.
Get festive at the Bankside Winter Festival
  • 12th – 21st December 2008
  • Stroll down to the Thames for the Bankside Winter Festival -- with Christmas shops and stalls and lots of festive events. Don't miss the extra-special Lantern Parade on the 12th December.

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