London Shopping Tips by mwe

Name of Shop: John Lewis.

This is one of the big department stores on Oxford Street.
London isn't just about clothes shopping. Consumer durables are available in abundance.
John Lewis has probably the best choice of televisions.
For example:
Toshiba 26WLT66 (16:9 26 inch LCD digital, made in UK) £649 (includes 5-year guarantee).
Toshiba 32WLT66 (16:9 32 inch LCD digital, made in UK) £795 (including 5-year guarantee).
...Prices correct at Dec.12th, 2006.

What To Buy: Central London's main shopping area is the 'West End'.
Oxford Street has most of the 'chain stores', discount clothing stores & some department stores, e.g. Selfridges & Debenhams.
Regent Street is slightly more exclusive (e.g Dickins & Jones department store).
Piccadilly has smaller/esoteric/more unusual shops.
Bond Street has top-notch shops like Chanel.
Tottenham Court Road & Edgware Road has specialist electrical/computer/photography shops.

Harvey Nichols is a department store in High Street, Kensington, on the western fringe of the west end, southwest of Hyde Park & Kensington Gardens (High Street Kensington tube).
Harrods is an upmarket department store in Knightsbridge, south of Hyde Park (Knightsbridge Tube Station).


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Theme: Department Store

Among the huge department stores of Oxford Street are a few market stalls. Here is one such stall.



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Address: Oxford Street, London, W1.

Name of Shop: Markets

Leather Lane, in the City, is where one of London's numerous street markets is located.



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Address: Leather Lane, London EC1.
Directions: NW of Holborn Circus. One block west of Hatton Garden. One block east of Grays Inn Road.
South of Clerkenwell Road.

SE of King's Cross mainline rail terminus.
Nearest tubes: Chancery Lane & Farringdon.

New Bond Street is one of the most exclusive, upmarket shopping streets in central London.



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Address: London, W1.
Directions: It's a north-south road linking Oxford Street and Piccadilly.
Nearest Tube is Bond Street.

Regent Street contains a variety of major shops. It links Oxford Circus (at its northern end) to Piccadilly Circus (at the southern end).
This picture is taken at the southern end looking south-east.



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Name of Shop: Burberry.

Between their "boring beige trenchcoat" period in the 1960s and '70s (which spilled over onto the '80s) and today, when Burberry have gone to the other extreme and tries too hard to be trendy, with the likes of the gruesome Kate Mess promoting them, Burberry was exciting and appealing. ...This was under the chairwomanship of the wonderful sassy, sexy Rose Marie Bravo (a lot more pleasing to the eye than Kate Mess).

What To Buy: Whatever it is from this 'British' icon won't be made in UK! ...They closed their British factory earlier this year (2007) to concentrate production in China. Many famous people, such as Tom Jones and Manchester United manager, Alex Ferguson, campaigned to save the factory and hundreds of jobs in an area where there aren't that many jobs (the Welsh valleys).

What To Pay: Too much, considering it's all made abroad by cheap labour.

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Theme: Women's Clothes
Phone: (020) 7968 0000.
Address: 21-23 New Bond Street, London, W1.

Name of Shop: Department stores

Harrods is the most upmarket department store in London.



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Theme: Department Store
Phone: 020-7730 1234
Address: 87 to 135 Brompton Road, Knightsbridge, SW1X 7XL.
Directions: West of Hyde Park Corner, along the A4, where Brompton Road meets Hans Crescent.
Nearest Tube: Knightsbridge.
Website: http://www.harrods.com