We welcome everyone and encourage you to come and see us, so on this page, we've tried to think of all the questions you might need answers to, in order to decide whether or not to visit us and if you do, how easy we are to get to, find, get in to and negotiate around our spaces.

Where are we?

We're very centrally located in the southern-most borough still on the north side of the river, situated in Islington, directly opposite St. Mary's church at 121-122 Upper Street.

Tubes

We're equidistant between Angel Tube on the Northern Line (black on the map) and Highbury & Islington Tube on the Victoria Line (light blue on the map).

Buses

Incredibly well served for buses, we've stops almost outside travelling in both directions for routes 4, 19, 30 & 43 and just 2 minutes walk away on Essex Road, you can pick up the 38, 56, 73, 341 & 476.

Bikes

There are bike racks opposite us at the front of St Mary's church, any number of lamp and signposts outside a also a ring on the front of our shop to padlock one on to. You can bring in folding bikes which we'll watch for you behind the counter. There are TfL bikes to rent nearby at Islington Green and loads of the various app-based bikes lying around everywhere.

Cars

If you're travelling by car there are free parking and loading bays outside where you can stop for 30 minutes. All the side streets also have pay-and-display bays. For more details of how it all operates, click here.

Disabled permits can park for 3 Hours.

Shop Layout

You enter our shop through one front door. There's a short ramp for those of you with buggies and wheelchairs to make things easier to tackle what is a very low step. The door is almost always hooked open (unless it's especially freezing) and the opening dimensions are 195 x 80cms (6'6" x 2'8")

We're a medium-sized shop, which looks quite small on the outside, but is tardis-like on the inside - around 3,000 square feet or 280 square metres. We're split into a ground floor and basement and an outdoor garden space. The layout changes frequently, depending on the nature of our ever-changing stock, but we strive to keep the corridors and aisles wide enough to negotiate, with as few impediments as possible, whilst still maintaining our eclectic, Aladdin's cave charm.

Basement

We have a basement which contains more goodies, our customer loo along with the click and collect and mail order department.

There are also large displays of mostly furniture and our workshop.

It is accessed via a staircase in the centre of the shop. It's fairly narrow - about 75cms (30") wide with a hand rail down both sides. Unfortunately, we don't have a way of getting wheelchairs and buggies down there and neither the space nor finances to install a lift.

Whilst we welcome parents with buggies large and small, even those OTT 4-wheel-drive monster versions, when it comes to Christmas we get incredibly busy and it's frequently impractical to push a little 'un around without banging into stock or customers, so it's worth planning ahead to do your Christmas shopping and come when we first open or near closing time.

Toilet Facilities

We've got a toilet in the basement, only accessible via a staircase, so it's not wheelchair accessible, unfortunately. It's a shared space used by our team, along with members of the public. It's small, but it's got a baby-changing mat and free nappy bags. We ask that you take soiled nappies with you. Just ask for the door code if you need to use it.