View of 54-56 Strand, City of Westminster. A major thoroughfare, the Strand runs east to west from Trafalgar Square to Temple Bar. Named from the Old English ''strond'', meaning the edge of a river, as before modern embankments and land reclamation it ran alongside the north bank of the River Thames. This terrace of houses was built c1737 on a site once part of Durham Place, the most easterly of the mansions along the south side of the Strand. Number 54 has five storeys with a cast-iron balcony on the top floor. Occupied by The National Cash Register Till Company, founded in the United States and established in the UK in 1886. ‘To Let’ signs are also in view. Two four-storey buildings; both number 55, are occupied by Lewis Jacobson and Company, selling bags and trunks, with a window display of briefcases and cases, and Palfrey and Bowen; a haberdashery advertising 'All British Goods'. Number 56 is a four-storey building with a jeweller on the ground floor; Saqui and Lawrence, established c1884 by cousins Abraham Horatio Saqui and Samuel Lawrence. Their chain of shops were ultimately sold to their aunt Harriet Samuel, who had an established chain of jewellers, H. Samuel. A sign on the first floor advertises ‘M. Giwelb, Dealer in British and Foreign Stamps and Stamp Albums, Rare Stamps Bought and Sold’. One of the most important dealers in rare stamps, Giwelb was responsible for the unmasking of the forger Dr Bernhardt Assmus, after he bought forged Penny Black stamps from Assmus. These buildings were demolished and replaced with office buildings with retail outlets on the ground floor.