bjacques - Records and second hands books = North Laine (i.e. Bond St through to Sydney Street and surrounding environs). I particularly recommend Borderline (Gardner Street) for all your new music buying needs, and Wax Factor (Trafalgar Street) is pretty good for second hand vinyl. Ooh, and you must go to Snoopers' Paradise on Kensington Gardens. They have everything. Everything.
Oh, and the museum of automata - you're either thinking of the toy and model museum, which is on Trafalgar Street under the station bridge, or the Victorian penny arcade, which is on the beach, just west of the Palace Pier. |
