This is a very small out of the way but free museum filled with mostly 'inappropriate' neon signs…read more I say inappropriate not because I was offended but many were sexual or religious in nature and in today's society there are a bunch of over sensitive adult babies. There is a small bar here that you can grab a drink while you walk around, they take credit cards. Overall it's kinda like a dive museum, but o believe worth it to get off the beaten path and away from the crowd of tourists. It is a sketchy neighborhood and the buses to get here are pretty rundown.

Take the London tube (Northern Line) going north to the last stop and hoof it for about 15 minutes…read moreand you'll arrive at this joint, which proclaims to be the largest collection (museum) dedicated to neon art and artists in the world. Located in a gated area with working factories, micro breweries and other commercial establishments. Stroll through, it's free and they play great tunes throughout as you enjoy the neon art. Enjoy some coffee, drinks and snacks at their cafe. The surrounding area has a large number fabulous and authentic global ethnic cuisine options and apparently the longest outdoor street market in London. The William Morris childhood Home and his Museum is also nearby so the area, is free and interesting. Overall it's a great day trip less than 45 minutes tube ride from London.

I always check this out as I have had some really good finds over the years, they often sell…read morepublishers returns, I once bought all the Buffy guides for my goth obsessed mate, boxed, for 99p (which Waterstones still sold at the time for £35) Last bargain was a branded barbie afro-groom doll. Sold that on e-bay for £10! Best buy was a farting George Bush doll, caused much amusement to my American mates.

I was always embarressed about going to the 99p store but i was dragged in there by a friend and i…read moremust say i was shocked some of the stuff they sell have highly respectable brands for a penny less than a pound so i was shocked and if you have never visited one and are reading this review i suggest you take a trip to your nearest local 99p store and be amazed.

Hoohing is the Asian version of 'Tesco' equivalent supermarket. The area is huge just like giant…read moreTesco supermarket! I was overwhelmed by the amount of varieties and choices of foodstuff available! Visiting this supermarket is almost like a sightseeing trip by itself! Price wise it is relatively cheap and the fresh vegetables are really cheap in bulk! Most of the offers cater for bulk orders and not so much of individual consumers. But it is still worth a visit! You need to have a car for convenience sake as it is quite poorly linked by public transportation. This is a new location as they were in the Olympic site before demolition.

Great place if you are in need of any oriental food products. You will find they stock most of it…read morethere. It's also a great place for bulk buying to as most take aways get there supplies here. You will need a car to get here for easy access else it's about a 10 min walk from lea bridge road. It's a great place to go to if you can't be bothered to go to china town and you live in the area.

Quite a large store with a good book selection offering an interesting selection of subjects and…read morenot too much in the way of Jeffrey Archer or Catherine Cookson (me is a snob!). Clothes are not too bad as the shop attracts donations from local trendy urbanites who cannot afford Hackney! Stock is in neat orderly displays so no opportunity to rummage around. However I always pop in and they have attractive window displays as well.

This is definitely the best charity shop in E17. There are a handful of them along High Street and…read moreOxfam is the stand out winner. I mostly went for women's clothes, and got a few great scores. Items are priced by type, so all coats are 5 pounds even if it's a really hot, like-new Top Shop trench! You have to weed through the low quality crap to find the goods, and there are some nice brands and like-new items as a reward. I also found a couple good tops for my guy, but mens selection was consistently less awesome. Like most thrift stores. Nice employees, excellent corner location, cute window displays, and a great selection of books, too. I went here weekly for about 4 months and always found something worth the trip. Totally recommended.

Traditional little jewellers a rare these days and need our support. This has been here for years…read more Unchanged.

Housed in the former CoOp building at the west end of the High Street the International Supermarket…read moreis a one-stop shop for those looking for the ingredients to a healthy Mediterranean diet. A very wide range of fresh fruit and vegetables. The fresh herbs and leaves are especially good value compared to the main British supermarkets. Personally I have a short list of regular items I buy from the International Supermarkets, items that are not usually available in Sainsbury's for example. - Tim's Cypriot Style Yogurt (British made) - Halloumi cheese - Goat's & sheep's cheese - Interesting range of sweet and hot peppers - Huge bunches of fresh flat-leafed parsley - Olives from the deli counter - Fresh Turkish style bread (before I got the breadmaker) - Cold-Extracted Olive Oil They also have impressive sections for dried pulses and grains including Bulgar, cous-cous, fragrant rice and all the colours of lentils under the sun. The pasta section is interesting too, from the minute up to pre-formed cannelloni tubes.

Since moving to Walthamstow this store has become my favourite place to shop for food…read more They stock a fabulous range of fruit and vegetables at a great price, and nice, big bunches of herbs for much less than Sainsburys up the road. Olives are sold at much less than you'd find them at fancy food markets, and while you are there don't forget to check out the spices to the left of the olive counter. Beans and pulses of all kinds are on offer, also a huge variety of nuts and dried fruits. Well worth a visit even if it's just to look around. The manager may ask you to leave big bags at the front of the store, due to the ongoing problem they have with shop lifting!

This is the store we use daily, the shop is small, but has lots of useful items, bakery, papers,…read moreeveryday groceries. The staff are very friendly, they remember our names and what we get and 9 times out of ten have it ready for us to go! They are very good with disabled people, they come to the car and get the order,or serve the petrol so the person doesn't even have to get out.

DO NOT, I REPEAT DO NOT PURCHASE ANYTHING FROM THIS COMPANY. I purchased shoes online from the US…read morebecause they were sold out everywhere. The company messed up (admitted it) and said they didnt actually have my size in stock and instead of cancelling my order, they sent me the wrong size. Now i am trying to return the shoes, and they say they can only use DHL because of Brexit. They will not send me a label and cannot give me a pickup timeframe for DHL. They want me to sit at home for 24 hours waiting for a pickup and that is the ONLY way to get my item returned. What awful customer service. NEVER AGAIN

I love this place but funnily I only discovered it about a year ago when my boyfriend bought me…read moretons of shoes from there. It's a stylish shoe shop; I have limited edition kickers and some lovely tan sandals from there. It's a unique shop as all the other shoe shops in the area either sell cheap and not very wearable shoes so it's a great addition to the high street! They also have some really good sales on at times. So if you're ever in Walthamstow high street and need some new shoes I'd check this place out as it sells unique and limited edition footwear.

Anyone who's been to this Sainsburys Local will know how annoying it is, the aisles are without…read moredoubt the narrowest in any chain supermarket anywhere so much so that to walk past someone you have to both shuffle sideways, and if anyone's actually stopped to look at the shelves then you can imagine what happens! Somehow it still works though, maybe in London we're just used to crowds of people from using the tube and whatnot so you still manage to get in there and get what you need - and they do seem to have almost everything you'd find in a normal Sainsburys Local somehow neatly squashed in there. The bizarre effect it has though is that whenever I go to a different one they always feel so roomy and I feel like I'm in some kind of luxury paradise version with ample room to stroll around without bumping into people!

I like this store. The only other nearby ones have the following problems:…read more * Lots of corner shops and even the big ones are far too snack heavy and lacking real food. * Lots of exotic shops that offer people to taste of home rather than real good food. * Some of the independent stores stopped selling alcohol because of all the hobo battles. A few of them might try to set you up with their daughters. * McDonald's is 24/7 but makes me fat. Has no food drinks only children's sugary drinks. Doesn't stock essential conveniences such as toilet paper. * Eating things from Iceland really hurts my teeth. It's all really cold and hard. * If I eat food from Tesco it makes my bum sore every time. They also hire very sad people who get lonely so they try to stop you from leaving. The Sainburies isn't bad with none of the above problems but as express stores go it is crammed into a really small footprint. The range of food isn't bad considering the small footprint but it's not ideal and isn't going to stock an amazing range of items. The opening times are also not the best for me. Because the store is so crammed it's a bit gloomy and depressing. The checkout area has ultra compact machines that seem often broken and the security seems a bit overbearing because of the confined space as well as the crummy area they're in. I don't know what it's like at busy hours but I can't imagine it's pleasant. If a queue forms it will immediately start to cut into the shopping area creating a kind of shop while you queue dynamic.