View of Strand, City of Westminster (south side), looking east. 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. Number 228 has four-storeys with attics and is occupied by the Temple Bar Restaurant, advertising Light Luncheons, Wines, Spirits and Teas. On the first floor, a bracket over the pavement holds a model of The Temple Bar gateway, built in 1669 to replace the original late fourteenth-century stone gateway between the Strand and Fleet Street. It was removed in 1878 and rebuilt in Theobald's Park, Hertfordshire by Lady Meux, a banjo playing barmaid who had married into a wealthy family of London brewers. In 2004 the gateway was returned to the City of London and is now the gateway to Paternoster Square near St Paul’s Cathedral. Number 229 is an early seventeenth-century four-storey timber-framed building, with an early to mid nineteenth-century shop front. There is a first-floor overhang, a further overhang on the second floor and a cast-iron balcony to the roof. Signs advertise 'Patent Medicine Ware House', 'Blairs Gout and Rheumatism Pills'. There is also a sign for 'Prout' for Prout and Harsant, Brush Makers, the previous occupant. In the shop window are framed pictures, and a sign for 'Clearance Sale' The building is Grade II* listed, number 1264444. Number 230 is a narrow late seventeenth or early eighteenth-century four-storey building with an attic and a nineteenth-century shop front. Painted signs on the front read 'W. M. Thompson & Co., Discount Booksellers', 'English and Foreign Booksellers' and 'Punctuation Simplified'. Number 232 is a four-storey building occupied by 'The Aerated Bread Company'. Founded in 1862 by Dr John Daglish who patented a method of bread making. Above the first floor is an estate agents' sign: 'Thanet House. Offices to be Let, Farebrother Ellis and Company, Jones Lang Company, E. M. Stoddart and Company'. This building was modernised in 2018. Behind these buildings are the Middle and Inner Temple Inns of Court, the professional association for barristers in England and Wales, and where they have chambers. The building set back from the road with Corinthian columns is a bank. The street is thronged with men, wearing caps, bowler hats, and straw boaters. A young man in an apron carrying a basket looks at the camera and a bicycle is propped on the kerb.