View of 229-232 Strand (south side), City of Westminster. On the left at number 231-232 is Thanet House, a five-storey building with attics and two small cupolas on the roof. Named after Thanet Place on whose site it was built, itself named after the Earl of Thanet who owned the land. The ground floor shop is ABC Bakeries, formerly the Aerated Bread Company, founded in 1862 by Dr John Dauglish who had patented a new automated method of bread making. In the window is an advertisement for a ‘Ladies Room’. The building is now a small supermarket; but the sign for the Aerated Bread Company is still visible. The upper floors advertise ‘Legal Insurance Company Limited’ with an entrance to the offices on the ground floor via an arched porch. Number 230 is a late-seventeenth or early-eighteenth century four-storey terrace house, Grade II listed, number 1236756. The ground-floor shop is occupied by W. M. Thompson, booksellers, and Mathieson and Company, publishers with an advertisement for 'The Storyteller, Great Enlargement, Unrivalled Fiction Number'. The best-known fiction magazine of its day, featuring stories by William Hope Hodgson, Edgar Wallace, G.K. Chesterton. Also signs for ‘Harmsworth's Great New Educational Work, Peoples of All Nations, 1/3d’. Alfred Harmsworth, later newspaper baron Lord Northcliffe, facilitated publication of historical educational journals. Also 'The Imperial Conference’, ‘The Labour Problem’ and ‘Wages and Empire’ (still in print today). Number 229 is of a similar date and was originally built as the home of the gatekeeper of Temple Bar, one of the gates through London's Wall. It survived the Great Fire of London and is Grade II* listed, number 1264444. The ground-floor shop is occupied by a tobacconists advertising Justus van Maurik Cigars. Both numbers 229 and 230 later became The Wig and Pen Club; an exclusive private members club. An estate agent's board advertises 'Entire Upper Part of this Building To Let, Fairbrother Ellis and Company'. Number 228 is a four-storey building with semi-circular attic with railings. The upper floors have bowed windows and include the office of 'Flowerdew’ supplying law typists, official shorthand writers and typewriting etc. The Temple Bar Restaurant below advertises 'Grills, Joints, Entrees, Luncheons, Teas, Wines and Spirits' run by 'Trust Houses Limited', later ‘Trusthouse Forte’. On the first floor, a bracket over the pavement holds a model of The Temple Bar gateway, built in 1669 to replace the original late fourteenth-century stone gateway between the Strand and Fleet Street. It was removed in 1878 and rebuilt in Theobald's Park, Hertfordshire by Lady Meux, a banjo playing barmaid who had married into a wealthy family of London brewers. In 2004 the gateway was returned to the City of London and is now the gateway to Paternoster Square near St Paul’s Cathedral.