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Essex street’s Watergate: a threshold to the bourgeois Strand
Essex Street Water Gate, London WC2 (1934) Edgar Holloway. The British Museum “He crossed the road and went into the darkness towards the little steps under the archway leading into Essex Street, and I...
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Snapshots from lockdown
Lockdown in London was announced on 23rd March 2020, but many folks had been social distancing for a week or more before. It’s been heartening to see that the – very few – photos that are being posted...
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Stargazing from centuries gone by
In the 18th century, the Philosophical Transactions journal (then a relatively new publication) preserved several accounts of astronomical events as observed from the Strand. The Royal Society of...
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Class of 2020: Graduating From a Distance
A common epithet to describe the coronavirus has been “the invisible enemy”. Not only does the use of the chosen adjective, ‘invisible’, hint at the nature of a biological threat, but it also...
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Aldwych: a not so abandoned station just below us
The Aldwych underground station on the junction between the Strand and Surrey Street has been closed for nearly thirty years. This lonely station, that stands at the place of the former Royal Strand...
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Dan Kirmatzis: Strand series
The Strandlines team periodically check in on photos tagged to the Strand (and surrounding areas) on Instagram and Twitter. We came across Dan Kirmatzis’s work on Instagram. A huge thanks to Dan for so...
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This is where Samuel Johnson first inspired me Where I discovered the Queen Victoria statue unexpectedly Devoured small tuna sandwiches with cucumber And realized one night, mournfully, I was too old...
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Life and Work on the Tower RNLI Lifeboat Pier
Anyone who has crossed the Waterloo bridge might have noticed the Royal National Lifeboat Institution Pier, on the north side of the Thames. This is the busiest lifeboat station in the United-Kingdom....
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Repost from Courtauld Digital Media: Pictures of London in the Age of Social...
Editors’ note: The Strandlines editors are always scouring for news and research about the Strand area. Below we’re delighted to be sharing a short extract from ‘The Strand Statues’, a piece by Ruby...
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#MyStrand: Brian, Platform Staff at Charing Cross
My name is Brian and my job on the Strand is Platform Staff at London Charing Cross. I have been working on the railway since July 2010, so almost 10 years. My time of work varies each week. I do a 3...
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