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Shopping

Department stores, markets and the streets worth walking, with opening hours and what things actually cost.

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Shopping

Fortnum & Mason: You Can Look at 11.30 but Not Buy Until Noon

The Sunday browsing-only half hour, the five restaurants on five floors and which is which, and the weekday close that is later than the rest of Piccadilly.

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The Selfridges building on Oxford Street lit up on a wet winter evening
Shopping

Selfridges: Open Till 10pm, and the Quiet Hour Nobody Mentions

The latest-closing department store in London, with the shortest Sunday. Quiet Hour runs every Wednesday, and the building holds a cinema, a skate bowl and a psychic.

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