View of 430-437 Strand (north side), City of Westminster. 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. This terrace is part of a triangular island block of shops and offices between the Strand, Adelaide Street and William IV Street (formerly King William Street). Built in 1830-32 as part of the West Strand Improvements, planned by architect John Nash and executed by William Herbert. On the right on the corner with William IV Street, number 430 is one of the circular corner pavilions, known as "pepper pots", with three storeys and an attic with a balustrade. In 1895 this was the office of the British Medical Journal, which began publishing on 3 October 1840, and continues as a peer reviewed medical journal. Also, with an office at number 430, was Ernest Hart an ophthalmic surgeon at St Mary's Hospital Paddington, and the editor of the British Medical Journal until his death in 1898. Numbers 431-437 form a three-storey terrace with cast-iron balcony to the first floor and shop fronts, all unoccupied and undergoing restoration, other than number 432, The City Bag Store. The block is Grade II* listed, number 1237040. A number of cars and a van are parked in the street.