View of the Strand, City of Westminster (north side) on the corner of Wellington Street. The Wellington Pub at number 351. A four-storey corner building with a steep pitched roof with attic windows and bow windows on the corners on the upper floors. On this site since 1848. Next door, at 352-353, is a four-storey building with attic and ground-floor shop occupied by Ronson, lighter manufacturer. Founded in 1897 in Newark, New Jersey, by Louis Aronson, the company became famous for 'pocket lighters', first produced in 1913. The company opened in the UK in 1930 and received a royal warrant in 1963. Number 354 is Henekey Inns public house, known as the Lyceum Tavern. A three-storey building with a beer keg containing a clock on a bracket between the first and second floors. Number 355 is Burleigh House, an eighteenth-century three-storey building with a mansard roof and dormer windows, occupied by Boots the Chemist. Grade II listed, number 1264432. Numbers 356-359 are Grade II listed, number 1264303, and occupied by a sandwich bar, Ladbrokes Turf Accountants and 'Jacques Fleurs', florist. The four buildings and shops are now combined as one restaurant. In the distance, on the corner of Strand and Burleigh Street is The Strand Palace Hotel, with a branch of Barclay’s Bank occupying the ground floor. The seven-storey hotel opened in 1909 and later expanded to absorb Haxells Hotel, reopening in 1928. On the right in Wellington Street is The Lyceum Theatre. Built in 1831-34 by Samuel Beazley, the principal theatre architect of his era, with the interior rebuilt in 1904 by Bertie Crewe. Graeco-Roman porticoed main front by Beazley with giant hexastyle Corinthian-columned portico with coupled outer columns extending over the pavement with pediment. In 1878, Henry Irving the famous actor manager took over the theatre. After World War II it reopened as the Lyceum Ballroom and was also used for rock concerts. After refurbishment it reopened again as a theatre in 1996. It is Grade II* listed, number 1066119. A number of vehicles wait at traffic lights including Black cabs.