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If you look across to the south side of the Strand, you can see the entrance to the original Strand Campus of King's College London.
King's College London's Strand Gate, 2012
The College was founded in 1829, and subsequently joined the University of London. The original entrance looked very different; it was a small, undemonstrative gateway off the busy nineteenth-century Strand.
Strand Lines
Self described ‘war baby’ Judith Herrin was born in 1942 and lost her father, who was serving in the Air Force, a year later. Her mother, a general practitioner, never remarried. Regardless, Judith remembers a happy childhood and had a very close relationship with her mother, who took her on many holidays to places like Scotland and France. These trips, frequently including forays to ancient castles and other iconic sites, were partly responsible for Judith deciding to become a historian. While studying in Cambridge, the Byzantine era in particular caught her attention. Read more »
Ink and wash sketch drawn from life in Lincoln's Inn Fields Park in 2010. The scene reflects how people use this open green space only a few minutes away from the busy Kingsway and Strand.
David Stone, 64, is a PHD Literature student King’s College London who also spent his late teens in medical school at Charring Cross hospital: he is an expert on the changes in the Strand area in the last 50 or so years.
Carrying on along the north side of the Strand, heading east towards Fleet Street and away from Trafalgar Square, we reach the Adelphi theatre.
The Adelphi theatre today.
Shopping! This was a major activity on the Strand in the nineteenth-century, and West Strand was the site of the renowned Lowther Arcade (near where Coutts stands today):
The Lowther Arcade, from The Mirror, April 7 1832. Westminster Archives Centre.
This covered shopping area was a favoured destination for whiling away the time in bad weather. You could buy toys and other gifts here.
