No Sleeping on the Strand
Panoramas, Dress Circles and Tubes
In 1787 Robert Barker put a patent on a way of seeing: ‘panorama’. It is said that he came upon the term when surveying the city of Edinburgh from the top of Calton Hill. Moving to London, Barker reconstructed 360 degree views in a Leicester Square art gallery; an initiative mimicked by his son on…
Read MoreStrand 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 MoreOdhams Walk
The Academy for Sustainable Communities has produced a video about the history of Odham’s Walk. Click on ‘video’ to view it.
Read MoreFord Madox Ford on the Strand in the nineteenth century
The Strand figures twice in Ford Madox Ford’s reminiscences about his pre-Raphaelite relations, Ancient Lights (London: Chapman and Hall, 1911). First in this passage which is revealing about the different experiences of place in different generations: I was talking the other day to a woman of position when she told me that her daughters were…
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
Petrolheads and airheads
The future has come to the Strand, in the form of a beautiful machine – the Bloodhound. Currently filling the front window of Coutts Bank with its pointy-nosed enquiry into what sort of world might make use of it, this gleaming blur of potential encapsulates an ambition: to reach a speed of 1,000 mph and…
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