View of 411-422 Strand, City of Westminster (north 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. Number 422, on the corner with Bedford Street (formerly Half Moon Steet), named after the Duke of Bedford on whose lands it was built. A three-storey building with steeply pitched roof and attic windows with a 'Dutch gable' facing on to Bedford Street. Cast-iron balconies to the windows of the first and second floor. Number 421 is a narrow five-storey building with a roof cupola, and swag decoration above and below the second floor. The ground-floor shops are combined as 'Horne' men's outfitters; established in 1886 until 1993. Number 420 is a four-storey building with cast-iron balconies on all the upper floors, and a shop on the ground floor occupied by 'Berni Inns Steak Bar'. Established in Bristol in 1955, the chain was sold to Whitbread in 1995. Number 418 is a five-storey building with bay windows on all the upper floors, decorative stonework between the floors including swags, and a cupola roof. On the ground floor is 'Gary Elliot Men's Fashion Centre'. The Queen’s Head public house at number 405 and Yate’s Wine Lodge at number 417 which had been established in 1890 as The Bun Shop and later The Tram Shed. Part of Britain's oldest pub chain, it closed in 1981 but reopened in 2012 as The Port House, bar and restaurant. Between numbers 407-408 is an archway with the inscription "To the Nell Gwynne Tavern Saloon Lounge” named after the famous mistress of King Charles II. The pub itself dates from around 1680 and is Grade II listed, number 1066336. New Zealand House at 413-416 is a four-storey building faced with Portland Stone, with a steep pitched roof and attic widows. A balcony to the fourth floor with flagpoles, and cast-iron balconies to the windows on the first floor, and above the entrance. Purpose built as the New Zealand Embassy, it was designed by the architects Crickmay and Sons and completed in 1916. Decorative festoons around some of the windows were carved by John Whitehead and Sons. New Zealand House moved to a new building in 1963 and the ground floor is now a building society. The Adelphi Theatre at 411-412, advertising 'Showboat, a Chunk of Musical Magic', by Oscar Hammerstein was built in 1806 as the Sans Pareil, by merchant John Scott and his daughter Jane. It was renamed the Adelphi in 1819 and bought in 1880 by brothers Agostino and Stefano Gatti, part a wealthy Italian-Swiss dynasty who owned a portfolio of London theatres and restaurants. The theatre was frequently modified until the last major rebuilding in 1930 by Ernest Schaufelberg. The building is Grade II listed, number 1264304.