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Alfie's Antique Market

Strap on your bargaining boots and adjust your haggling hat and head down to Alfie's Antique Market for some amazing treasures. This popular antique market has a several floors of cool stuff of all kinds. Just a few specialties here include theater memorabilia, fancy furniture, and unique textiles. Alfie's is closed on Sunday and Monday.

type:	Antiques
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tel:	0207 723 6066
address:	13-25 Church Street, Regents Park

Biblion, Grays Antique Market, Mayfair, London

Biblion is no ordinary bookshop, but a hub for all antiquarian book lovers. Strolling through the shop one can only admire the quantity of books containing the vast knowledge of previous generations, as well as the fine array of modern first editions that any avid collector would love to own. Biblion is in a fantastic location tucked behind Bond street tube station. This is a great place to leave the hustle and bustle of Oxford street behind and while away a few hours. The staff are polite and hepful. All book lovers should know about this shop!

type:	Book shops
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tel:	020 7629 1374
url:	biblion.co.uk
address:	Biblion, Mews Market, Grays Antique Market, 1-7 Davies mews, Mayfair, London W1K 5AB
email:	bekki@grays.biz

Covent Garden and Neal Street

Covent Garden Market in London
photo by: Joseph Hollick

Covent Garden used to be the flower market for London. Now it's full of market stalls, and small shops and is a lovely place to wander around for an hour or three. At weekends and on summer days there are often street entertainers all around the place and you can watch anything from unicycling to fire eating as you relax.

Neal street is just around the corner from Covent Garden and here you can find everything from the latest surfing styles, to a wide range of homeopathic and herbal remedies. It's a real mixed bag, but is a good place to get some serious shopping done.

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Tottenham Court Road

Stereo and electrical shops and home design stores....good bargains to be found here. Tottenham Court Road or Goodge Street tubes.  Home to the Headquarters of two of the UK's largest department stores - Heals of London and Habitat.

type:	Speciality shops
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Oxford and Regent Streets

This is the main area in which to find High Street stores. All the main ones are here from Marks and Spencer, Debenhams, John Lewis, Hamley's Toy Shop, Boots, W.H. Smith, and many more specialty shops.

For many this is considered the centre of London. At any time of the day or night this area is always thronging with people.

Oxford Street, running West to East is the main shopping thoroughfare with all of the big name flagship department stores on this street. Regent Street, running North to South bisects Oxford Street, and the crossroads where these more..

type:	Shopping centers and malls
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email:	matt@mattsharpe.com

CHARING CROSS ROAD

Lots of book stores, rare and speciality, antique editions and more. Tottenham Court Road tube

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Brixton

Brixton is a colourful, unique area, that is like nowhere else in London. Down Electric Avenue (made famous by Eddy Grant's song), it's packed with stalls supplying exotic fruit and vegetables, fish and meat from Africa and the Caribbean. Wander down Atlantic Road to access more indoor markets, and enter 'Brixton Village', and indoor market off Pope's Road, which has household goods, greasy spoons, a pet shop and a specialist wig shop.  Brixton is also home to the famous Brixton academy, the grand town hall at the centre of it all and many libraries and more..

type:	Markets
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address:	Electric Avenue, London SW9

Bookmongers

A varied and slightly chaotic second-hand bookshop that has books stuffed in every available corner. The bearded owners are usually sat back listening to folk music, but obviously love what they do. The books conditions vary from almost brand new to scuffed old classics, and it's hard to wander round this place without picking up a book for a few quid. Go right to the back of the shop and you'll find the bargain shelves, where all the books too tatty or out of date go anywhere else.

type:	Book shops
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tel:	020 7738 4225
address:	439 Coldharbour Lane, London SW9 8LN

Camden Market

Camden's group of markets is now the fourth most-visited tourist attraction in London. It is the largest street market in the UK, and attracts around 100,000 visitors every weekend. There are various markets located in Camden Town which are collectively known as Camden Market; these are Camden Lock Market, Camden Stables Market, Camden Canal Market, Inverness Street Market, and Camden (Buck Street) Market.

The area around Camden Lock was first developed in 1791 by the Earl of Camden, with the famous Regents Canal opening in 1820. The more..

type:	Markets
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address:	Camden High Street & Chalk Farm Road
email:	camdenmarkets@yahoo.com.au
accessibility:	Camden Town & Chalk Farm tube stations
url:	www.camdenmarkets.org

Chapel Market, Liverpool Road

Tues, Wed, Fri, Sat 9.00am-6.00pm Thurs, Sun 8.00am-12.00noon. Allsorts,Flowers, General goods,Fruit & Vegetables. There's also a cheeky man selling nuts and dried fruits - always good for a laugh.

Metrostop: Angel

type:	Streetmarkets
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East Street, off Walworth Road

Tues, Thurs, Sun 8.00am-3.00pm -Fri, Sat 8.00am-5.00pm. Allsorts & General goods.

Metrostop: Elephant & Castle

type:	Streetmarkets
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Fancy That of London Souvenirs and Gifts

Fancy That of London an exclusive chain of Gift Shops in the Heart of
London's West End, provding all of your London Gifts and British Souvenirs.

type:	Speciality shops
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tel:	02074861029
url:	www.fancythatoflondon.co.uk
address:	3-4 Station Approach, London NW1
email:	sales@fancythatoflondon.com

The British Boot Company

The British Boot Company in Camden Town claims that they are the original shop and the only shop selling real Dr. Martens boots. The price they charge is much higher than the other shoes shops, the onlineshop directed by the official Dr. Martens website, as well as the REAL Dr. Martens shop. They tend to provide false information. For example, they would tell a customer the pair of boots are the new release model of the year but in fact, they are the old model. Also, the price given from one staff can be different from another staff, and also different (higher) than the more..

type:	Speciality shops
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tel:	304-676-7955
url:	www.yahoo.com
address:	666 Demon Ave
email:	jloiu@yahoo.com

Portobello Road

Fri, Sat 8.00am-3.00pm -Antiques,Allsorts,fashion,Clothes, Fruit & Vegetables, Flowers, enjoy the Street Performers do their thing.

Metrostop: Notting Hill Gate

type:	Streetmarkets
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CARNABY STREET:

This street was enormously popular in the sixties for fashion, but still has some shops worth investigating. Mostly rock shops with t-shirts and accessories, but Shelley's shoes is one of the best shops in London for shoes. Oxford Circus Tube.

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Brick Lane

Brick Lane is chaotic, but fun, and filled with everything from hardware and household goods, to clothes, spices, saris, books, bikes, bagels and more. This popular shopping area will definitely bring out the Avant-Garde or funky side of you. Expect to find Art Deco Furniture, old magazines, rare CD's, unique used clothes, and more. To get there take The Tube to Aldgate East or Liverpool Street. Brick Lane runs parallel to Commercial Street. If you wander onto Commercial Street, stop by Spitalfield’s Market and if you get lost, just follow the crowd of funky kids.

type:	Antiques
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address:	Brick Lane runs parallel to Commercial Street

Hatton Garden

The place for jewellery. With a whole street full of jewellers, you're guaranteed to find something you like. Whether you can afford it or not, that's a whole different story.

Best tube stations: Chancery Lane, Farringdon

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Berwick Street, Soho

Mon-Sat 9.00am-5.00pm. Fruit and Vegetables

Metrostop: Oxford Circus

type:	Speciality shops
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Petticoat Lane, Middlesex Street

Sun 9.00am-2.00pm --Allsorts,fasion,Watches, Clothes, Footwear, Luggage, Leather & General goods,Fun, East End junk market.

Metrostop: Aldgate East

St Martin-in-the Fields (off Trafalgar Square)

Mon to Sat 11.00am-5.00pm -Sun 12.00noon-5.00pm ---Allsorts, fashion,Clothes, Arts and Crafts, Jewellery, Ethnic goods

Metrostop: Charing Cross