Skip to content
Strandlines logo (white)
  • Strands
    • Browse the strands
    • Contribute
  • Series
    • Maureen Duffy
  • Tours
    • Rags and Riches Walking Tour
    • Greening Aldwych Walking Tour
  • About
    • Contribute
    • Editors
    • Contributors
    • Partners
×
  • Strands
    • Browse the strands
    • Contribute
  • Series
    • Maureen Duffy
  • Tours
    • Rags and Riches Walking Tour
    • Greening Aldwych Walking Tour
  • About
    • Contribute
    • Editors
    • Contributors
    • Partners

Posts Tagged ‘London architecture’

George E. Street’s Royal Courts of Justice: architectural visions of the Strand

By Téa Emily Carter | 31 March 2021 | 2

In 1873, George E. Street began building his most visible architectural project: the Royal Courts of Justice. The project, which required eleven years of construction, became one of his last, as Street did not live to see the Courts completed in 1882. According to Street’s son, the New Law Courts project, as it was called…

Read More

Essex street’s Watergate: a threshold to the bourgeois Strand

By Myfanwy Boudry | 5 April 2020 | 1

“He crossed the road and went into the darkness towards the little steps under the archway leading into Essex Street, and I let him go. And that was the last I ever saw of him.” – The Diamond Maker by HG Wells (1894).  An “in-between” space, the Essex street’s Watergate closes the street on its…

Read More
Generic selectors
Exact matches only
Search in title
Search in content
Post Type Selectors

Recent Posts

  • The Life of a Cell in the Strand – an Interview
  • The Pathway of the Imaginary
  • Simpson’s-in-the-Strand – In literary, in historical, and in contemporary London
  • Freedom Narratives
  • Money, Money, Money…

About

The Strandlines digital community explores one of London’s most famous streets, the Strand, and its past and present communities.

This site is an archive from which experiences, memories and reflections about the local area can be retrieved; a gallery where photographs, drawings and films can be viewed.

Intellectual property

Strandlines content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to assert ownership of your work under different terms, please do get in touch with the Strandlines editors.

Contact us

contact@strandlines.london

Privacy policy | Cookie policy