View of 389-410 Strand, City of Westminster (north side) looking west. 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 388-389, on the corner with Southampton Street, is a four-storey building with attic and 'Paradiso E Inferno' restaurant on the ground floor (opened in 1966 by the Mortali family). Number 390 is a narrow three-storey building with attic, advertising 'Atlas Staff Bureau’. Number 391 is occupied by 'Stanley Gibbon', 'Philatelists and Publishers'. Founded in Plymouth in 1856, Stanley Gibbons is the world’s longest established rare stamp merchant, and has been on this site for over a century. Numbers 391-2 have been redeveloped. Number 393 is a 1960s six-storey building with the Queensland State Office on the ground floor and the state flag flying from the flagpole. The building has been modernised but remains Queensland House. Next, at 384 The Irish House public house which closed in 2012 with a sign for ‘Sauna’ above. A lorry of 'Telfers Meat Products' is parked outside. Also in view is shoe shop 'Saxone' and 'Austin Kaye and Company Jewellers'. Between numbers 401 and 402 is a narrow entrance to Lumley Court, dating from Elizabethan times. At number 403, The Vaudeville Theatre advertising Kenneth More’s Signs of the Times. Built in 1869-70 by C. J. Phipps and rebuilt by Phipps in 1890. The auditorium was redesigned in 1925-26 by Robert Atkinson, for the Gatti Brothers. Four storey and faced with Portland stone, the building is Grade II listed, number 1264459. The Queen’s Head public house is at number 405 and, between 407-408, is a narrow passage leading to Bull Inn Court, and a sign for Nell Gwynne Free House. Although the court is still named after the former Bull Inn, it contains the Nell Gwynne Tavern, named after the famous mistress of King Charles II. The pub itself dates from around 1680 and is Grade II listed, number 1066336. Number 409-410 was built by Spencer Chadwick in 1886–87 for the Gatti Brothers as the Adelphi Restaurant. In the early-twentieth century it was the office of the Australian State of Queensland, but is now a restaurant and is Grade II listed, number 1237038.