Shops & Stores

Crowds and flower stalls under red and white awnings at Columbia Road

Columbia Road Flower Market: Coffee, Plants and Bagels in 2016

Colourful tables on the rooftop terrace at Alfies Antique Market

Alfies Antique Market: Rooftop Coffee and Valentine’s Gifts in 2016

A 2016 Valentine’s shopping trip to Alfies Antique Market: rooftop coffee and a scone, a vintage cocktail shaker, Soho chocolates and a Cecil Court card.

Cordings of Piccadilly shopfront at Denman House on a wet London evening

Cordings of Piccadilly: Shopping for a British Tweed Cap

A winter search for a properly fitted British tweed cap leads inside Cordings of Piccadilly, a London outfitter whose country instincts have endured since 1839.

North Face shopping bag outside the Covent Garden shop

North Face Etip Gloves in Covent Garden: A 2015 Field Test

Wrapped presents and colourful gifts in Liberty London’s 2014 Christmas window

Liberty Christmas Windows 2014: The Unveiling on Great Marlborough Street

Harrods’ illuminated Knightsbridge façade during Christmas 2014

Harrods Christmas Windows 2014: The Land of Make Believe

Harrods transformed its Knightsbridge frontage into a blue-lit winter fantasy for Christmas 2014, filling the windows with toy soldiers, ballerinas, oversized toys and the story of a tiny mouse called…

White globe Christmas lights suspended above shoppers and traffic on Oxford Street in 2014.

Oxford Street Christmas Lights and Windows in 2014

An evening walk along Oxford Street two days after the 2014 Christmas lights were switched on, recording the illuminated West End and changing department-store landscape.