View of 180-186 Strand, City of Westminster (south side). On the corner with Norfolk Street, named after the Duke of Norfolk whose property Arundel House once occupied the site. Number 180 is The National Bank, founded as the National Bank of Ireland in 1835, and becoming The National Bank in 1859. In 1966 the branches outside Ireland became part of the National Commercial Bank of Scotland, and subsequently the Royal Bank of Scotland. Number 181-182 is occupied by ‘Chamberlain and Jones’ men’s outfitters. Numbers 184-186 form a five-storey corner block with a roof parapet, an arched porch supported by pilasters, and 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. Number 183 is another five-storey building with an attic and a Rymans stationary shop on the ground floor. Founded by Henry J. Ryman in 1873, the first store opened in London at Great Portland Street in 1893. The company continues to trade. These buildings have been demolished and replaced with a Brutalist building used as a cultural and arts centre. Pedestrians and parked vehicles are in view.