View of Arundel Street, showing the side aspect of 184-186 Strand, City of Westminster. Arundel Street was built in 1678 on part of the site of Arundel House, a property of the Duke of Norfolk. A five-storey corner block with a roof parapet, and two-storey extension with basement along Arundel Street. Alternating triangular and arched pediments over the first-floor windows. From the mid-nineteenth century until 1920, this was the headquarters of stationers W. H. Smith. Established in 1792, its first store was opened by Henry Walton Smith and his wife Anna in Little Grosvenor Street, London. It remains a stationery and books retailer with more than 1,700 stores in over 30 countries. In 1878 the building was described as “lofty, and covers a large space of ground, and is complete in every department. On the ground-floor is a noble and spacious hall, forming almost the extent of the entire premises, and is surrounded by two galleries. The bustle is at its height about five o'clock in the morning, when vehicles are bringing in the morning papers from the different printing-offices, and are at once folded into oblong packages, wrapped in brown paper covers already addressed, and dispatched in light red carts to the various railway stations for transmission to different parts of the world”. In 1921 the building was occupied by Kelly's Directories Limited, publishers and printers of directories including the Post Office London Directory. Established 1799 it was the oldest directory publishers in the world. On the left, number 2 Arundel Street is a three-storey building with basement, and decorative swags below the ground-floor windows. A parapet balcony to the first floor and decorative friezes between the upper floors. These buildings have been demolished and replaced with a Brutalist building used as a cultural and arts centre.