London
Street Names
New
Bond Street
Is mainly designer clothes shops and Fenwick's department store. You
will also find some very expensive art galleries and Sotheby's down
here.
Old
Bond Street
This part of the street is door to door with jewellery shops, which
include Aspreys (the Crown Jewellers) and Tiffany's.
Charing
Cross Road
Home of the book lover! This street is full of many small
bookshops.
Silver Moon who deal only with women's books-Zwemmer is for art.
Marchpane stock antique and rare books Foyle's and Waterstones the major
book stores are also down here. Some of the shops can look pretty
tacky, but it depends what you are looking for.
Denmark
Street
Denmark
Street is quite a short street containing six or so shops specialising
in musical instruments and equipment. An excellent selection of guitars
can be found down here.
Hatton
Garden
Hatton
Garden is the centre of the diamond trade. Hatton Garden has a lot of
history behind it, but today it is known for the large number of
jewellery shops. It is the centre for the diamond trade in London. The
shops in Hatton Garden are one of the few places where you can haggle
over the price and come away with a good piece of Jewellery
Jermyn
Street
Jermyn
street offers a fine selection of shops selling bespoke shirts and ties.
The shaving tackle shop has a very good window display. The cheese shop,
although a bit out of place, is one of the best in London.
Kensington
High Street
This
is a typical London shopping high street, with a large number of shops.
In close proximity to Portobello Road, Kensington Church Street and the
numerous nearby hotels. Although not worth crossing London for, it’s
handy if you are nearby.
Kensington
Church Street
Kensington
Church Street contains a large number of antique shops, along with a few
18th century houses. It is in close proximity to Portobello Road, which
makes it an ideal place to visit on a Saturday when the market is on. If
you are hungry after all that, try the Kensington Place restaurant.
Kings
Road
The
King’s Road got it’s name after Charles II as it was his private
road to Hampton Court. The Road ceased to be private in 1830.
Today the street is full of small but expensive one off boutiques , It
is a lovely shopping street and you can always find that extra special
gift down there.
Knightsbridge
This
street runs from Hyde Park Corner to Kensington Road. Along with
boutiques, you have Harvey Nichols department store and Harrods.
Knightsbridge barracks is also on this street and if you look up the
stables are two floors up. Royal Thames Yacht Club - French Embassy -
Wellington Club
Oxford
Street
This
is one the main shopping streets within London, with many large
department stores. Although today there are many smaller shops .
DEPARTMENT STORES:- Mark & Spencer's. - D H Evans - Selfridges -
Debenhams - Virgin Mega Store - HMV Record Store - Nikes -John Lewis -
British Home Stores.
Regent
Street
This
street runs from Piccadilly Circus to Oxford Street and has many of the
one off department stores and shops , along with some high street shops.
Stores
Liberty
- Dickens & Jones - Hamley’s - Warner Brothers - Disney Store -
Gap - Next - Tower Records
Savile
Row
If
it’s a suit you are need then Saville Row is where you must go. The
bespoke tailors that occupy this street are world famous with Kings,
Presidents, film stars etc, etc, amongst there customers.
Gieves and Hawkes is the most prominent shop.
St.
James Street
St
James street has a wonderful collection of shops, all of them unique.
Berry Brothers and Rudd (wine merchants) Locks (hatters) have been here
since 18th century. J. Lobb (bootmakers and shoes) since 1850. William
Evans (gun makers). D.R. Harms (chemist) Robert Lewis (cigars) A fine
street to buy quality merchandise.
Tottenham
Court Road
The
shops down here mainly sell computers, stereos, CD players, TV’S. and
many other electrical goods. Most of the shops are selling off old
stocks of computers and some of the shops look run down, but there are a
few shops that do sell good quality equipment. Towards the other end of
the street is the furniture store Habitat and Heals.
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