View of Adam Street, City of Westminster, on the corner with Strand. The ground-floor of the corner building at 73 The Strand is occupied by silver and goldsmiths ‘Widdowson and Veale’. George Widdowson had taken over this shop from his uncle John Salter who had supplied Lord Nelson with many pieces of jewellery. Later, the company made swords and other weapons for the British army and navy, orders and decorations for the British court and were goldsmiths and jewellers to the court of Spain. Widdowson was a steward of the Goldsmiths’ Benevolent Institution and a great philanthropist. Adjacent, at number 74, is ‘Bewlay and Company’, tobacconist. Signs advertises 'Flor de Dindigul Cigars', a mild cigar from Tamil Nadu in India and ‘British Churchman', a brand of cigarettes from Ipswich. On Adam Street, numbers 10-11 form a three-storey terrace with cast-iron balconies and triangular pediments above the first-floor windows. A sign on the first-floor balcony advertises 'Scottish Legal Life Assurance Society' which became Scottish Friendly in 2007. On the corner is a lamppost, pillar box, and the faint image of a man in a peaked cap. These building were demolished, and modern offices and retail units are on the site. Behind is the Cecil Hotel, built 1890–96, and named after Cecil House; a mansion belonging to the Cecil family, which occupied the site in the seventeenth century. Mahatma Gandhi’s South African delegation stayed here while campaigning for Indian rights in the Transvaal in 1906. It was also the base for a Palestine Arab delegation that arrived in London in August 1921, protesting the proposed terms of the British Mandate for Palestine. The hotel was largely demolished in 1930, and Shell Mex House now stands on its site.