London - Around Town : Westminster, the South Bank and Southwark (part 3) - Shopping

Parliamentary Bookshop

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

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

Gabriel’s Wharf

Shops in riverside Gabriel’s Wharf display hand-painted glassware, fashion, interiors, jewellery and ceramics.

• 56 Upper Ground SE1

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.

• 8 Southwark Street SE1

• Open 11am–5pm Thu, noon–6pm Fri, 9am–4pm Sat