View of The Strand, City of Westminster, 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. A busy street view with numerous pedestrians and vehicles in view. Three- and four-storey buildings with ground-floor shops including 'Klaus Knitwear Specialists' and 'Strand Jewellers'. The Queen’s Head public house at number 405 and Yate’s Wine Lodge at number 417 which had been established in 1890 as The Bun Shop and later The Tram Shed. Part of Britain's oldest pub chain, it closed in 1981 but reopened in 2012 as The Port House, bar and restaurant. Between numbers 407-408 is an archway with the inscription "To the Nell Gwynne Tavern Saloon Lounge” named after the famous mistress of King Charles II. The pub itself dates from around 1680 and is Grade II listed, number 1066336. New Zealand House at 413-416 is a four-storey building faced with Portland Stone, with a steep pitched roof and attic widows. A balcony to the fourth floor with flagpoles, and cast-iron balconies to the windows on the first floor, and above the entrance. Purpose built as the New Zealand Embassy, it was designed by the architects Crickmay and Sons and completed in 1916. Decorative festoons around some of the windows were carved by John Whitehead and Sons. New Zealand House moved to a new building in 1963 and the ground floor is now a building society. The Adelphi Theatre at 411-412 was built in 1806 as the Sans Pareil, by merchant John Scott and his daughter Jane. It was renamed the Adelphi in 1819 and bought in 1880 by brothers Agostino and Stefano Gatti, part a wealthy Italian-Swiss dynasty who owned a portfolio of London theatres and restaurants. The theatre was frequently modified until the last major rebuilding in 1930 by Ernest Schaufelberg. The building is Grade II listed, number 1264304. Signs advertise Talk of the Town starring Jimmy Edwards, Dave King, and Jill Day with the Tiller Girls. Number 409-410 was built by Spencer Chadwick in 1886–87 for the Gatti Brothers as the Adelphi Restaurant and is Grade II listed, number 1237038. The sign above the shop window for 'Queensland' was erected in the 1920s by the Australian state. At number 403, The Vaudeville Theatre was built in 1869-70 by C. J. Phipps and rebuilt by Phipps in 1890. The auditorium was redesigned in 1925-26 by Robert Atkinson, for the Gatti Brothers. Four storey and faced with Portland stone, with a blue art deco 1927 canopy over the entrance. The building is Grade II listed, number 1264459. The Tivoli Picture Theatre on the right was built in 1890 as The Tivoli Music Hall but closed for a proposed road widening scheme and was demolished in 1916. The new Tivoli Picture Theatre was built on the same site, designed by Bertie Crewe and Gunton and Gunton, for a company chaired by James White, and leased to Metro Goldwyn Meyer. It opened in September 1923 and closed in 1956 with a last showing of the films 'The Baby and the Battleship', and 'Oklahoma Woman'. In 1957 the Theatre was demolished to make way for a branch of the Peter Robinson fashion store.