If you love to rummage and haggle for a bargain, you’ll love London’s markets. They’re at the heart of London life and you’ll find all sorts of specialist markets all over the city. Here are some of the best and well known ones:
Petticoat Lane – a four hundred year-old bric-a-brac and flea market in Whitechapel, a real slice of East End life
Leadenhall – a food market in a beautiful old Victorian building just off Gracechurch Street, next to Lloyd’s of London and not far from the Bank of England
Camden – you’ll find all sorts in this young, hip and trendy part of town, from arts, crafts and antiques to music, books and clothes.
Spitalfields – a large fruit and vegetable market on Bishopsgate, opposite Liverpool Street Station
Borough – another good market for fresh produce
Covent Garden – a chic and fashionable square filled with upmarket bars, restaurants and boutiques
Shopping
London is a shopper’s paradise, and some of its shopping streets are famous across the globe – Bond Street boutiques, Oxford Street clothes shops, Saville Row tailors, Carnaby Street fashion shops, Sloane Street designer stores, Petticoat Lane bric-a-brac, Portobello Road antique dealers and the Borough fruit and vegetable market.
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