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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 »
A few doors down from the Adelphi is the pretty building which houses the Vaudeville Theatre.Built in 1870, Henry Irving acted on this stage for a while, as Ronald Bergan's book The Great Theatres of London tells us.
Vaudeville Theatre today.
Interior of the newly-opened Vaudeville Theatre in 1870. Westminster Archives Centre.
To me, Charing Cross Station is such a fixture of the western end of the Strand that is difficult to think that it is not yet 150 years old. I pass the station often when I leave the tube at Embankment on my way to King's College. In the nineteenth-century, Charing Cross was an example of industrial modernity overwriting the old city.
Charing Cross Station opened in 1864, and the hotel opened a year later. The Illustrated London News portrayed it as both a glowing symbol of modernity, and a gothic monster, lowering in the heart of the city.
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Trafalgar Square has long been associated with national celebrations. The present Queen marked her Silver Jubilee in 1977 with a carriage procession from Buckingham Palace which went through Trafalgar Square and down the Strand.
She followed in the path of Queen Victoria, who was proclaimed Queen at Charing Cross in 1837, and in 1887 marked her jubilee with a procession along the same route.
Proclamation of Queen Victoria at Charing Cross, July 1st 1837. Westminster Archives.
Trafalgar Square marks the western entrance to the Strand. Trafalgar Square was begun in 1840, to provide a more dignified frontage to the new National Gallery as well as a memorial to Nelson’s naval victory at Trafalgar and a reminder of the might of the burgeoning British Empire. After much arguing, Nelson’s column was finally erected in November 1843. The bas-reliefs around the bottom of the column, depicting Nelson’s most famous battles, were only finished in 1854, and the famous lions were finally put in place in 1867. Read more »
1-7/7/20XX
London Wall is an underexplored archive of personal accounts of communal history. The following letter illustrates what it was like to live in the age when humanity found itself plagued by lexical proliferation, the critical area of confusion being the schizoid split within the term privacy.
Daer Adopter,
the rest is the reality of the shamefully simple truth, whose blatantly disarming obviousness one is trying to verify conjuring all sorts of complexities imaginable to a human kidney. 
The flash of the shadow struck my heart with vehemence never felt before. What runs with me every day, each minute, every single second of my living days. And nights. It then got totally out of control. The remembrance of the river’s love depths--an overwhelming amount of the red liquid flooded that pump. And it made my body scream through the pleasantly humid air along the river bank. I didn’t know it was also called running. But I run like mad. Melting in the heat of my boiling (--)consciousness/the cacophonic beauty of my grandparents’ quarrel/my parents’ silence/my running scream. 