Elevated 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. On the right, on the corner with Villiers Street, is a six-storey concrete building with shops on the ground floor under an overhanging first storey. On the corner is 'Dixons Cameras' which was founded in Southend-on-Sea in 1937 by Charles Kalms. Adjacent is a shoe shop, 'True Form' founded in Northampton in 1891 by John George Sears. Next is a J. Lyons Café. J. Lyons & Co. was founded in 1894 by Joseph Lyons and his brothers in law, Isidore and Montague Gluckstein. Having opened a teashop in Piccadilly, from 1909 they developed this into a chain of teashops. By 1939 there were 253 branches, employing 42,000 people. They also diversified into Lyons Brand commodities including, tea, cakes, and ice cream, and were taken over by Allied Breweries in 1978. Next, Dolcis shoe shop, began in 1863 when John Upson started to sell his shoes in Woolwich Town Market, South London. There are numerous vehicles in the street, including Black Cabs, a number 13 Routemaster bus to Golders Green, and a lorry of 'Trollope and Colls (City) Limited, a construction company formed in 1908 by the merger of two companies, George Trollope and Sons, and Colls and Sons, both with their origins in the late-eighteenth century. It continues to trade. In the foreground, a number of people are waiting at the 77 and 176 bus stop, and a policeman is directing the traffic.