View of 146-151 Strand, City of Westminster (south side). 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 three-storey terrace with mansard roof and dormer windows and shop fronts on the ground floor. Number 146 is occupied by 'F. Cleaver, A Tailor for the Particular Man', advertising 'Hotel Uniforms and Liveries', and 'Suits Pressed While You Wait 5 minute Service'. Number 147 is 'The Lugger Restaurant'. Number 148, with cast- iron balconies and triangular pediments to the second-floor windows, is a Wimpy Bar. Founded in the United States in 1934, in 1954 J. Lyons and Company signed a license with the company to operate Wimpy Bars throughout the UK. Number 149 is an Italian Restaurant, 'Gaiety'. The ground floor shop of number 150 is boarded up. The building is now known as Franklin House. In the street are parked a lorry belonging to Howard and Company Building Contractors; a Morris Minor van, and a Bedford van advertising 'Twinings, For Lively Tastes in Teas and Coffees. A Twinings shop was located nearby.