Shopping in London

 

Whether or not you're coming to London for a spending spree the main shopping streets should be on your list of sights to see. They are as follows:

Oxford Street is a wide selection of fashion boutiques and shoe shops, big department stores and the Oxford Walk arcade.

South Motton Street, off Oxford Street, is a delightful pedestrian thoroughfare full of character. The shops are beautiful and exclusive.

Bond Street has nearly 200 shops to choose from, selling everything from fine china, glass, antiques and cloth to exquisite clothes and shoes.

Regent Street is a handsome street containing several well known department stores famous for beautiful fabrics, china, glass, silver and jewellery specialists.

The oldest bookshop in London is in Piccadilly, the most beautiful perfumer is in Jermyn Street, the place for musical instruments, books old and new is Charing Gross Road.

They sell electronic and hi-fi equipment as well as top-quality modern furniture in Tottenham Court Road.

Welcome to Harrods — a different world for a million reasons. Harrods is the largest store in Europe with goods displayed in 60 windows and 5 hectares and a half of selling space. In one year over 14 million purchases are made in the 214 departments where you can buy anything from a pin to an elephant. It is Harrods' policy to stock a wide and excitting range of goods in every department, to give the customer a choice of goods which is unique in its variety and which no other store can offer. For example, Harrods stocks 450 different cheeses, 500 types of shirts and 9000 ties to go with them, 8000 dresses and 150 different pianos, etc.Harrods also offers a number of special services to its customers including a bank, an insurance department, a travel agency, London's last circulating library, a theatre ticket agency and a funeral service. £ 40 million worth of goods are exported annually from Harrods.

The Export Department can deal with any customer's purchase or order and will pack and send goods to any address in the world. Recently, for example, six bread rolls were sent to New York, a handkerchief to Los Angeles, a pound of sausages to a yacht anchored in the Mediterranean, a Persian carpet to Iran and a £ 5000 chess set to Australia. Harrods has a world-wide reputation for first-class service. It has a staff of 4000, rising to 6000 at Christmas time.

A morning spent strolling round Harrods is guaranteed to give any shopper an appetite and to feed its customers. Harrods has six restaurants, some bars and tea-rooms. If you feel like a drink you can choose between the pub atmosphere of the Green Man Tavern and the sophistication of the Cocktail Lounge. Harrods truly is a different world.