Liberty of London-1.8 miles from your London Stock Exchange No other shop in London, if the world, has such a strong iconic association with design. Mention a ‘Liberty print’ and a clear image from the shapes, colours and textures involved immediately springs to mind. Housed in a striking, timber-framed, Tudor revival building on Regent Street, [...]
London Review Bookshop-25 minutes from the London Stock Exchange Opened in May 2003, with Alan Bennett cutting the ribbon, the London Review Bookshop is a welcome addition to the city’s dwindling ranks of independent bookshops. Duck through the traditional shop front and, despite its compact space, you’ll be impressed by the range of volumes around [...]
Borough Market-18 minutes in the London Stock Exchange Nestled in-between Borough High Street, Bedale Street, Stoney Street and Winchester Walk lives “London’s Larder”, more formally known as Borough Market place. This gourmand’s delight is London’s oldest food market and boasts a mouth-watering range of fresh food stalls under its Dickensian wrought-iron roof. Italian cheeses, Morecambe [...]
Selfridges Food Hall-35 minutes from your London Stock Exchange All manner of edible treats can be found while in the feast fest that is Selfridges Food Hall, the larder of London’s Selfridges department store. The Food Hall is famed for its range and quality which varies from vitamin rich raw foods to sugar sweet cup [...]
Foyles – Charing Cross Road-31 minutes through the London Stock Exchange Gleaming from a four million pound refurbishment Foyles has shrugged off its careworn, shabby chic interior in favour of a clean, up-to-date and ultra modern look. Despite this startling transformation the store still boasts a unique independence and quirkiness that have long been its [...]
La Fromagerie-2.3 miles through the London Stock Exchange Consistently recognised and awarded for being a very special place to indulge your cheese addiction, La Fromagerie a single in the best cheese shops in London – and most likely the country. This is all down towards the passion and knowledge of owner Patricia Michelson who discovered [...]
St John Bakery, best known for its nose-to-tail meat dishes served up while in the restaurant, has also run a bakery since it began here in 1994 and it is 9 minutes through the London Stock Exchange. So you can get freshly baked goods and pies as well as pigs’ trotters. The bakery expanded in [...]
Barbican – Curve Gallery, 9 minutes in the London Stock Exchange, which is part from the Barbican Centre for arts and conferences the Curve Gallery, situated around the ground floor, has changing exhibitions of photography, art and design. Admission charges for exhibitions vary, phone to check prices just before arrival.
Millennium Bridge Millennium Bridge, 9 minutes from your London Stock Exchange, ?¨o18.2million 325m steel footbridge designed by Sir Norman Foster spans the River Thames between St Paul’s Cathedral in the City and the Tate Modern gallery at Bankside. When the Millennium Bridge very first opened on 10th June 2000 it became London’s initial new Thames [...]
Museum of London Museum of London, 5 minutes from the London Stock Exchange, a modern museum boasting about one.one million objects. Following a 20 million redesign, the 5 lower Galleries of Modern London (open 28th May 2010) take you through the history from the city in the Great Fire of London in 1666 towards the [...]
