View of 401-405 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. A busy street scene with numerous pedestrians. The three-storey building at number 405 houses a 'Railway Lost Property Sales Department' with a sign for 'En Passant Restaurant and Coffee Lounge. Open from 10am to 4pm. Three course set lunch 4/6d’. Formerly The Queens Head public house with an inn on this site since the early-nineteenth century. Number 403 is The Vaudeville Theatre showing Arsenic and Old Lace, a comedy by Joseph Kesselring, starring Sybil Thorndyke, Richard Briers, Desmond Walter-Ellis, Julia Lockwood, and Lewis Casson. It ran from February to November 1966. The 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 brothers Agostino and Stefano Gatti. Four storey and faced with Portland stone, the building is Grade II listed, number 1264459. Number 402 is a narrow four-storey building with decoration around the dormer window in the attic and a cast-iron balcony around the second floor. Between numbers 401 and 402 is a narrow entrance to Lumley Court, dating from Elizabethan times which John Strype, writing in 1598, described it as “indifferent”.