London Street Vintage is a vintage shop at 31 London Street in Lyttelton, Banks Peninsula, holding a perfect 5.0 rating on Google.
Vintage shopping rewards decisiveness: every piece is a one-off, so the find you hesitate over is often gone by the weekend. It rewards a careful eye too — check for wear, mends and working zips, and remember that older clothes especially rarely match modern sizes. Regulars browse often rather than shop to a list, because good stock turns over fast and the best pieces rarely survive the week. Lyttelton is good country for it: a compact port town where weekend browsers drift between the Saturday market and the old shopfronts, and a slow wander turns up more than any list.
On London Street, a short walk from the port, this is an easy stop on a Lyttelton wander — and a reminder that in vintage, the town itself is half the find.