Buy the day’s political reading, plus parliamentary-related prints and other souvenirs.
12 Bridge Street SW1
Lower Marsh
Once London’s longest street market, stalls sell inexpensive music, clothes, hardware and food. Open mornings Mon–Fri.
Lower Marsh SE1
Llewellyn Alexander
This art gallery has changing, quality exhibitions, notably in the summer.
124–126 The Cut SE1
Open 10am–7:30pm Mon–Sat
Free
Llewellyn Alexander art gallery
Southbank Centre
Free concerts
are held at the Royal Festival Hall (refurbished 2005–7) and the
National Theatre. Both have shops selling books and music. Second-hand
books are sold under Waterloo Bridge.
South Bank SE1
Signs, Southbank Centre
Gabriel’s Wharf
Shops in riverside Gabriel’s Wharf display hand-painted glassware, fashion, interiors, jewellery and ceramics.
56 Upper Ground SE1
Gabriel’s Wharf
Bankside Gallery
The gallery for the Royal Watercolour Society and Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers has work for sale, and a shop.
48 Hopton Street SE1
Open 10am–5pm Tue–Fri (11am–6pm daily during exhibitions)
Free
Oxo Tower Wharf
Two
floors are given over to designers of fashion, jewellery and interiors
and “the.gallery@ oxo” showcases cutting-edge photography, art, design
and architecture.
Bargehouse Street SE1
Open daily
The Furniture Union
Browse through the latest in British interior design in trendy Bankside Lofts opposite Tate Modern.
Bankside Lofts, 65a Hopton Street SE1
020 7703 9595
Vinopolis
Wines can be tried out on a tour of this exhibition of viticulture, and the shop stocks over a thousand varieties.
1 Bank End SE1
Open noon–9pm Mon, Fri & Sat, noon–6pm Tue–Thu & Sun
Admission charge
Borough Market
Good food from all over the country comes to this traditional covered market near Southwark Cathedral.
