The venerable old auntie of department stores, clocking up 175 years of trading in 2010, House of Fraser (or Kendal's, as it's better known by locals)...

Pop is a student institution, selling original and recreated '60s and '70s styles upstairs, including jeans, cute tops and cotton dresses. The basement is...

This neat boutique stocks a good range of clothing dating from the '50s to the '80s, alongside its own reworked vintage garments. There's a great choice of...

It would be a crime not to guide the discerning visitor to Selfridges; five floors of loveliness, desirability and luxury. The basement food hall is worth a...

OK, nearly every town has a Topshop, but Manchester's branch of the high-street staple is particularly impressive. This huge store stocks the...

This huge, shiny mall caters for every whim and is, therefore, generally pulsing at the seams with bag-laden shoppers. All the major fashion names are here,...

This slick shopping centre sprang from the ashes of the Corn Exchange (another casualty of that bomb), and while the old building's unique character has now...

This cavernous, glass-fronted store may be located on Manchester's main shopping row but its stock is far from high street. Students and hipsters flock...

Few shops have an exclamation mark in their title, but few shops are like Wowie Zowie! Right at home in bohemian Chorlton, this tiny delight is jam-packed...