Top 10 Shopping
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1. Parliamentary Bookshop
Buy the day’s political reading, plus parliamentary-related prints and other souvenirs.
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2. Lower Marsh
Once London’s longest street market, stalls sell inexpensive music, clothes, hardware and food. Open mornings Mon–Fri.
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3. Llewellyn Alexander
This art gallery has changing, quality exhibitions, notably in the summer.
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4. South Bank
Free concerts are held at both the Royal Festival Hall (currently undergoing refurbishment) and the National Theatre. Both have shops selling books and music. Secondhand books are sold under Waterloo Bridge.
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5. Gabriel’s Wharf
Shops in riverside Gabriel’s Wharf display hand-painted glassware, fashion, interiors, jewellery and ceramics.
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6. Bankside Gallery
The gallery for the Royal Watercolour Society and Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers has work for sale, as well as a shop.
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7. Oxo Tower Wharf
Two floors are given over to designers of fashion, jewellery and interiors and “the.gallery@ oxo” paintings, photography and ceramics.
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8. The Furniture Union
Browse through the latest in British interior design in trendy Bankside Lofts opposite Tate Modern.
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9. Vinopolis
Wines can be tried out on a tour of this exhibition of viticulture, and the shop stocks over a thousand varieties.
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10. Borough Market
Good food from all over the country comes to this traditional covered market near Southwark Cathedral. Try some cheeses, breads, chocolate and local beer.
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