Kingston’s historic Market Place, still trading daily, is well worth a visit, alongside the Coronation Stone said to mark said Saxon crownings. Over the last couple of decades, Kingston has become one of Outer London’s biggest retail destinations, pulling in 18 million visitors a year and boasting the fourth-highest retail turnover in Greater London.

With retail so central to what Kingston is today, IT support plays a genuinely make-or-break role. Point-of-sale systems, stock management, and online ordering all need to work flawlessly during peak trading, and a provider that proactively monitors these systems can stop the kind of till outages or website crashes that cost retailers real money on their busiest days.

On a cooler note, Banquet Records independent store operates on 52 Eden Street and is internationally renowned not just for selling vinyl, but for putting on hundreds of intimate in-store gigs and club nights each year.