Whiteleys

Whiteleys is a shopping center operating since 1989. Currently, it houses about thirty retail and service outlets, including eleven clothing, sports and cosmetics stores. There are also cafes, restaurants, a fitness studio, bowling alley and a cinema. The paid car park has space for 175 cars.

The building that houses the shopping center was built in 1863 on the initiative of William Whiteley for the needs of his textile store. In 1911, the first London department store was opened here, which operated for the next seventy years. In the following decades, the building passed into different hands, and was modernized several times. The latest reconstruction plan assumes the creation of a hotel.

Whiteleys was designed by John Belcher and John James Jeass. At the time it was created, the edifice was considered a symbol of luxury. He also appeared in several novels from the beginning of the 20th century, including George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion.