Time to shop in London - Discount, Designer, Auctions & more!

Bond Street
Bond Street is home to designer shops that are among the best in the world. In this very exclusive London shopping street you can find jewellers such as Asprey & Gerrard, Tiffany & Co at 25 Old Bond Street and Cartier, as well as antique shops, (such as Bond Street Antique Centre) and the world famous auction house, Sotheby's.

Nearest Tube / London Underground Station:
Bond Street.

Covent Garden
Covent Garden, shopping area in London, is somewhere you shouldn't miss even if all you have to spend, is time. Visit the Piazza with its large variety of colourful shops, stalls, restaurants and free street theatre and take the time to wander around the surrounding area where you will find art and design shops, fashion chains and Neal Street with its numerous shoe shops.
Nearest Tube / London Underground Station:
Covent Garden.

Opening times of shops in Central London
Many Department Store tend to have longer opening times than the other shops in central London (most shops open from 10 am until around 6 Mon-Sat)
Late night shopping, London - Oxford Street department stores stay open until 7 or 8 pm on Thursdays and Fridays. Most of the bigger stores are open on a Sunday from 12 noon.
Primark, London shop opening times:
Monday - Friday 9.00 am-9.00 pm Saturday 9.00 am-8.00 pm Sunday 12.00-6.00
Harrods, London opening times
Monday to Saturday, from 10am to 8pm, Sunday, 12 noon to 6pm.

Knightsbridge
This area has the world's best-known designer boutiques (such as Emporio Armani, Issey Miyake) - while Pandora at 16 Cheval Place, sells secondhand designer clothes.
Brompton Road is home to Harrod's - spend time in the store's 300 departments, which include the world famous food-hall. The Scotch House, is also on Brompton Road, while, Harvey Nicholls can be found at 109-125 Knightsbridge.
Nearest Nearest Tube / London Underground Station:

Knightsbridge

Oxford Street
Oxford Street has more than 300 shops and some of the best shopping in London. Marks & Spencer, Selfridges, Gap at 23-235 Oxford St and John Lewis, as well as the new Primark store at 499-517 Oxford Street, are among the many stores represented here.
Look out for the new Pandora beads London shop at 257/259 Oxford Street - opening times -10.00 - 19.00
Nearest Underground Station ( Tube ) : Marble Arch,
Bond Street.

Regent Street
This London shopping street is home to exclusive and expensive shops. The world's largest toy shop, Hamley's, is here and Liberty's, with it's mock Tudor facade is always worth a visit. Other London shops represented in and around Regent Street are: Mappin & Web, Aquascutum, Austin Reed, The Scotch House, Dickins & Jones, Agent Provocateur, Laura Ashley, Shelly's and the Disney Store.
Nearest London Underground Station, ( Tube ) : Oxford Street, Piccadilly Circus.

London discount & secondhand Shops
Annie's Vintage Clothes 12 Camden Passage, London N1. Nearest Tube / London Underground Station: Angel
Browns Labels for Less designer wear at 23 - 27 South Molten Street, W1 (Nearest London Underground tube station - Bond Street)
Burberry Factory Shop - bargains among the 300 lines in stock. 29 Chatham Place, E9. (Buses 22A, 22B, 48, 55, 253 will take you there)
Discount Dressing - European designers at cut - price. 58 Baker Street, W1 (Nearest London Underground tube station - Baker Street)

More Shopping
Books - Cecil Court is a charming late Victorian pedestrianised area linking Charing Cross Road and St Martin's Lane. Specialist sellers deal in rare and antiquarian books, maps and prints and printed material. Nearest Underground Station (tube) : Leicester Square
Clothes - jeans and all forms of fashionable casual dress - Abercrombie & Fitch, 7 Burlington Gardens, Westminster, London, W1S .Telephone: 020 7297 9400 Nearest Underground Station (tube/s) : Green Park, Piccadilly Circus
The Charity Shop - second hand shopping London - well known labels are on sale at a bargain prices. 211 Brompton Road, SW3 (Nearest London Underground tube station - South Kensington

Borough Market
Historically, Borough Market is a wholesale market in the Borough in Southwark, South London but in recent times it has become a London tourist attraction in its own right.

It is the retail market selling a vast array of British and international gourmet foods on Fridays and Saturdays that attracts both Londoners and those on a London visit to its numerous, colourful stalls.
Open: Fri 12.00-18.00, Sat 09.00-16.00

Brick Lane Market

Brick Lane Marker is known locally as "The Lane" and is located at the northern end of Brick Lane and along Cheshire Street in East London. It sells fruit and veg, general bric-a-brac, books, bicycles, furniture, trainers and clothes.

Open: Sunday 08.00-14.00.

Nearest tube - London Underground Station: Shoreditch.

Camden Market

Camden Market is located in Camden Town, North West London.

This busy market deals in fashion, jewelry, new and second-hand fashion bargains, music, wholefoods and collectibles.

Open: 09.00-17.30 Thur-Sun.

Nearest tube - London Underground Station: Camden Town.

Camden Passage

Camden Passage is a major Islington tourist attraction because of the antiques market which takes place here on Wednesday mornings and Saturdays.

Chapel Market nearby, is a traditional flea market which operates between Tuesday and Sunday.

Nearest tube - London Underground Station:
Angel.

Columbia Road Market

Columbia Road Market is the place to go for cut flowers, plants, shrubs, seedlings, pots and containers which all sell at remarkable bargain prices.

Open: Sun. 8 am - 2 pm.

Nearest tube - London Underground Station: Shoreditch, Old Street.

Covent Garden

Covent Garden and Apple Markets are very popular with tourists - these markets are located in the heart of Covent Garden and offer Antiques on Mondays, Crafts on Saturday and Sunday and souvenirs, clothes and gifts on other days of the week.

Open: every day 10.00-17.00.

Nearest tube - London Underground Station: Covent Garden.

Leather Lane Market

At Leather Lane Market EC1 you can find cut-price high street clothes, jewellery, shoes and bags in this very ancient area of London.

Open Mon-Fri 10.30 am-2 pm.

Nearest tube - London Underground Station: Farringdon, Chancery Lane.

Petticoat Lane Market

Petticoat Lane Market (E1)
is located on Wentworth Street and Middlesex Street in East London, and sells leather goods, watches, toys, clothing, bric-a-brac and more.

Open: Sunday 09.00-14.00.

Nearest tube - London Underground Station: Liverpool Street, Aldgate, Aldgate East.

Portobello Road Market

Three markets rolled into one. This is one of London's best loved and busiest markets and sells antiques, bric-a-brac and new and second-hand clothing from its many original and interesting stalls.
If you want an inexpensive designer creation; you could be in luck because many young fashion designers start here. It is located in the Notting Hill area of West London.

Open: Saturday, 7am-6pm.
Nearest tube - London Underground Station: Notting Hill Gate.

More Discount Shops in London

Discount Brand-name Furniture - high quality ex display discounted furniture ( most of the stock is Marks & Spencer or John Lewis but they also order direct from factories)
Bucks Furniture Warehouse, 125 Evelyn Street, Deptford,

Loft (The) - Discounted New and Second-hand Designer clothes, shoes, bags and accessories for men and women. Suppliers include celebrities who buy and sell their clothes in this store.
35 Monmouth Street, Covent Garden, London WC2 H9DD. (Nearest London Underground tube station: Covent Garden or Leicester Square.

The King's Road
The King's Road has a number of small fashion shops, trendy boutiques, clothes and shoe shops and a good choice of contemporary furnishing stores.
The Kings Road has always been famous - the mini-skirt revolution started here in the 1960s and in the 1970s at Vivian Westward's clothes store, 'Sex' - punk was born.

Nearest Tube - London Underground Station
Sloane Square