Project work by Francisco Duarte, 2º Bachillerato, I.E.S Julio Rodríguez Motril, Spain.

1. By: Francisco Jesús Duarte Abellán and Roberto Carlos Jiménez López

2. Índice
• The shops on Oxford & Regent streets
• Notting Hill and Portobello Road
• Famous stores in Mayfair and Piccadilly
• Charing Cross Road and Camden market
• Buying in Knightsbridge, Kensington & Chelsea
• East London's street Petticoat Lane markets

3. The shops on Oxford & Regent streets
• Oxford Street is a major thoroughfare in the City of
Westminstret in the West End of London.
• Oxford Street runs for approximately one and a
half miles (two and a half kilometres) from Marble
Arch at the north east corner of Hyde
Park, through Oxford Circus to St Giles Circus, at the
intersection with Charing cross Road and Tottenham
Court.
• It is Europe's busiest shopping street, as well as
its most dense, and as of 2011 had approximately
300 shops.
• The major stores on street includes:
Debenhams, HMV, House of Fraser, House of
Fraser, etc.

4. The shops on Oxford & Regent streets
• Regent Street is one of the major shopping streets in London s West End such as Oxford Street.
• The street was completed in 1825 and was an early example of town planning in England.
• It runs from the Regent's residence at Carlton House in St James s at the southern end, through
Piccadilly Circus and Oxford Circus, to all Souls Church. From there Langham Place and Portland
Place continue the route to Regent s Park.
• Selected shops and other places of note: All Souls Church, Apple retail store, Austin
Reed, Broadcasting House, Café Royal, Dickins and Jones, Hamleys, Liberty, Oxford Circus tube
station, Paris Theatre.

5. Notting Hill and Portobello Road
• Notting Hill is an area in London, England, close
to the north-western corner of Kensington
Gardens, in the Royal Borough of Kensington
and Chelsea.
• It is a cosmopolitan district known as the
location for the annual Notting Hill Carnival, and
for being home to the Portobello Road Market.
• Notting Hill has a contemporary reputation as
an affluent and fashionable area; known for
attractive terraces of large Victorian
townhouses, and high-end shopping and
restaurants.
• The origin of the name "Notting Hill" is
uncertain though an early version appears in the
Patent Rolls of 1356 as Knottynghull.

6. Notting Hill and Portobello Road
• Portobello Road is a street in the Notting Hill district of
The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in west
London, England.
• It runs almost the length of Notting Hill from south to north.
• On Saturdays it is home to Portobello Road Market, one
of London's notable street markets, known for its second
hand clothes and antiques and every August since 1996 the
Portobello Film Festival has been held in locations around
Portobello Road.
• Portobello Road was known prior to 1740 as Green's
Lane.
• Portobello Road Market draws tourists. However, there are
also fruit and vegetable stalls in the market, which trade
throughout the week and are located further north than the
antiques, near the Westway Flyover.

7. Stores in Mayfair and Piccadilly
• Piccadilly is a major street in central
London, UK, running from Hyde Park Corner in
the west to Piccadilly Circus in the east. It is
completely within the city of Westminster.
• It is home to the The Ritz Hotel and the
Fortnum and Mason department store which
has stood at the same site for almost three
hundred years.
• The Royal Academy art institute is on the
northside of Piccadilly at Burlington House.
• Mayfair (originally called The May Fair) is an
area of central London, within the City of
Westminster.
• Most popular stores in Mayfair: Louis
Vuitton, Miller
Harris, Poste, Burberry, Browns, Dover Street
Market, Tiffany & Co, etc.

8. Charing Cross Road and Camden market
• Charing Cross Road is a street in central
London, running immediately north of St Martin-
in-the-Fields to St Giles Circus and then
becomes Tottenham Court Road.
• It is so called because it serves Charing Cross
railway station (named for the nearby Charing
Cross).
• Charing Cross Road is renowned for its
specialist and second-hand bookshops such as
Quinto Bookshop and Henry Pordes .
• A long-standing correspondence between New
York based author Helene Hanff and the staff of
a bookstore on the street, Marks & Co, was the
inspiration for the book 84 Charing Cross
Road (1970).
• The book was made into a 1986 film with
Anne Bancroft and Anthony Hopkins.

9. Charing Cross Road and Camden market
• The Camden Markets are a lot of markets
in Camden Town near the Hampstead
Road Lock of the Regent's Canal.
• Among products sold on the stalls are
crafts, clothing, bric-a-brac, and fast food It is the
fourth-most popular visitor attraction in
London, attracting approximately 100,000 people
each weekend.
• The complex of Camden Market is composed of
six general sections, each with its own particular
focus on wares.
• But surely the best of Camden is the variety
of cultures and nationalities strangers circulating
about him. It is paradise sinister fashion, goth and
punk and people go dressed in strange ways.
• This woman is an example (Next slide):

10. Long live Diversity

11. Knightsbridge, Kensington & Chelsea
• Knightsbridge is a road which gives its name to
an exclusive district lying to the west of central
London.
• The road runs along the south side of Hyde
Park, west from Hyde Park Corner, spanning the
City of Westminster and the Royal Borough of
Kensington and Chelsea up to Brompton Road.
• Knightsbridge is notable as an ultra-expensive
residential area, and for the density of its upmarket
retail outlets.

12. Knightsbridge, Kensington & Chelsea
• The Royal Borough of Kensington and
Chelsea is a central London borough of
Royal borough status.
• After the City of Westminster, it is the
wealthiest borough in England.
• It is an urban area and was named in the
2001 census as the most densely populated
local authority in the United Kingdom, with a
population of 158,919 at 13,244 per square
kilometre.
• Contains a substantial number of city centre
facilities such as major museums and
universities, department stores like
Harrods, Peter Jones and Harvey Nichols, is
home to the Notting Hill Carnival, and
several Embassies in its
Belgravia, Knightsbridge and Kensington
Gardens districts.

13. East London's street Petticoat Lane markets
• Petticoat Lane Market is a fashion and
clothing market located on Wentworth Street
and Middlesex Street in East London.
• It is one of a number of traditional markets
located to the east of the City of London.
• A few hundred yards to the north is Old
Spitalfields market, and across Commercial
Street, to the east, lies Brick Lane Market.
A half mile further east is the Columbia
Road Flower Market.
• The market is open Monday to Friday on
Wentworth Street; on Sunday it extends
over many of the surrounding streets.