Posts by Hope Wolf
Strand Shops (1953)
These shops stand on the site of the current King’s College Strand Building (completed in 1972). © King’s College London Archives
Read MoreKing's College Strand Building Under Construction (completed 1972)
© King’s College London Archives
Read MoreSelling the Big Issue on the Strand
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Read MoreMarch down the Strand, 20th October 2010
March down the Strand, 20th October 2010
‘Like a festering wound covered by cloth’: cleaning, cutting and curing the Strand
Today I stumbled across a strand story written by E. Beresford Chancellor in 1927. It is from his ‘Introduction’ to Disappearing London (ed. Geoffrey Holme, London: The Studio Limited, 44, Leicester Square). ‘[T]here is beginning to spring up a generation which remembers, but cannot for the life of it recall, the Strand and its northern purlieus…
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