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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.
This is my sister, Kate, eating ice cream (or is it yoghurt?) on a September day in 1982. This was a few years before I was born, but it's evocative of my own childhood memories of the Strand.
As part of the Strand Lines Project I met with Dr Barrie Morgan to talk about his associations and interactions with the area whilst working at King’s. Dr Morgan was initially a Lecturer in the Geography Department when he first joined King’s in the late 1960’s. Read more »
Shops, seasons, buildings, sounds....
Everything special about Strand in Professor Brant's memory.
Strand Lines
A sister photo to the similar one that employed sepia tones and oval viewfinder. Taken directly from life on a evening using a long shutter format.
A deliberately overexposed photo of the Embankment taken from Somerset House. The people in the image provide a scale for the setting. Picture was one of a series of overexposed photos.
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 »
A pen and ink drawing from life in 2010 of Sasha, a young London College of Fashion student. Although this is a tiny drawing the patterns and textures elevated its scale.
Ink and wash sketch drawn from life in Lincoln's Inn Fields park in 2010. The scene reflects two people enjoying and using this open green space only a few minutes away from the busy Kingsway and Strand.
