SHOPPING IN LONDON

Street markets

SHOPPING IN LONDON

The shops on Oxford and Regent Streets

Oxford street

• - Oxford Street is one and a half miles from end to end. Most shops open 10am until 6 or 7pm. Many also open on Sunday from 12 to 6pm with late nights on Thursday. Oxford Street is best known for Selfridges and the other big department stores which are all found in the section from Marble Arch to Oxford Circus, along with most of the big-name multinationals. It's more of the same towards Tottenham Court Road, but generally on a smaller scale. Oxford Street is said to be the busiest shopping street in Europe

Regent Street

• Regent Street forms a neat dividing line between swanky Mayfair to the West and trendy Soho to the East. The main shopping section of the street lies between Oxford Circus to the north, and Piccadilly Circus to the south - a distance of about 3/4 of a mile. Our panoramas will help you see what's on offer, especially as the shops here can all appear rather uniform due to the regulations that they must blend in with the elegant architecture of the street. Regent Street has similar shop opening hours to Oxford Street.

NOTING HILL

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PORTBELLO STREETS

Notthing Hill• Nottthing Hill is an area in London, close to the north-western corner

of Kensington Gardens, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It is a cosmopolitan district known as the location for the annual Notting Hill Carnival

• Notting Hill has a contemporary reputation as an affluent and fashionable area;known for attractive terraces of large Victorian townhouses, and high-end shopping and restaurants (particularly around Westbourne Grove and Clarendon Cross). A Daily Telegraph article in 2004 used the phrase the 'Notting Hill Set’ to refer to a group of emerging Conservative politicians, such as David Cameron and George Osborne, now respectively Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer. However, the large houses have also provided multi-occupancy rentals for much of the 20th century. Caribbean immigrants were drawn to the area in the 1950s, partly because of the dubious practices followed by the landlord Peter Rachman, and became the target of white Teddy Boys in the 1958 Notting Hill race riots.

• Notting Hill has had an association with artists and "alternative" culture since its development in the 1820s. There are also areas of deprivation to the north,sometimes referred to as North Kensington, or Ladbroke Grove, from the name of the street

Portobello Road Portobello Road is a street in the Notting Hill ,London . It runs almost the length of Notting Hill from south to north, roughly parallel with Ladbroke Grove. On Saturdays it is home to Portobello Road Market, one of London's notable street markets, known for its second-hand clothes and antiques. Every August since 1996 the Portobello Film Festivalhas been held in locations around Portobello Road.

STORES IN MAYFAIR AND PICCADILLY

At the very heart of the London borough of Westminster is Mayfair, one of the city's finest residential areas and one of London's most attractive villages. Class, sophistication, and finery are all synonymous with Mayfair, which takes its name from the fortnight-long May Fair, which took place in the borough from 1686 until 1764. Situated between Oxford Street, Regent Street, Piccadilly and Park Lane, Mayfair is home to some of the finest shopping establishments in the world. Many of the establishments in Mayfair are as old as the district itself. Our Business Directory contains many of Mayfair’s hidden gems that you wouldn’t otherwise know how to find.

• Mayfair

Piccadilly is the wide and busy main road that leads to Picccadilly Circus. It is home to the The Ritz Hotel and the Fortnum and Mason department store which has stood at the same site for almost three hundred years. The Royal Academy art institute is on the northside of Piccadilly at Burlington House. Paeralll to Piccadilly to the south, is quieter Jermyn Street with its long-established menswear shops, especially shirtmakers.

Piccadilly

CHARING CROSS ROAD AND CAMDEN MARKET

CHARING CROSS ROADCharing Cross Road is a street in central London running immediately north of St Martin-in-the-Fields to St Giles Circus and then becomes Tottenham Court Road. It is so called because it serves Charing Cross railway station (named for the nearby Charing Cross).Charing Cross Road was developed, in conjunction with Shaftesbury Avenue, by the Metropolitan Board of Works under an 1877 Act of Parliament at a cost of £778,238. The two streets and others such as the Thames Embankment Northumberland Avenue, Kingsway and Aldwych were built to improve traffic flow through central London. It incorporated the routes of several older streets.

CAMDEN- Camden Lock Market, by the canal, was the original craft market, established in 1974, but now has a much wider spectrum of goods on sale. Both this and the ever popular Camden Stables Market - centre of the alternative fashion scene, Camden (Buck Street) Market, the recently improved Camden Lock Villageand Inverness Street Market - which thrived on local trade long before tourists discovered Camden, are all open every day, making the area well worth a mid-week visit. But it is at the weekend that the market scene jumps fully into life with all stalls and shops at the markets fully trading. The indoor fashion market at the Electric Ballroom opens on Sunday

EAST LONDON’S STREET MARKETSIt is one of a number of traditional markets located to the east of the City of London. A few hundred yards to the north is Old Spitalfields market, which has been refurbished, and across Commercial Street, to the east, lies Brick Lane Market. A half mile further east is the Columbia Road Flower Market. Petticoat Lane Market was not formally recognised until an Act of Parliament in 1936, but its long history as an informal market makes it possibly one of the oldest surviving markets in Britain.The market is open Monday to Friday on Wentworth Street; on Sunday it extends over many of the surrounding streets, with over a thousand stalls. It is closed on Saturday, and on Sunday closes at about 2 pm. The markets are well signed from local stations. Despite its fame and history, Petticoat Lane market is not designed as a tourist attraction.

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