View of 32-38 Strand, City of Westminster on the corner with Villiers Street. A branch of Barclays Bank at number 32 occupies a four-storey corner building with a balustrade on the roof, and to windows on the second floor. On the wall of the first floor, a sign points down Villiers Street to the District Line (Underground). Street signs include those to 'Men's and Women's Lavatories', 'To Embankment, LCC Trams, Hungerford Bridge', and ‘Charing Cross Railway District Station'. On the corner a person wears a sandwich advertising board for 'Typewriting, Duplications'. Occupants include ‘Strand House Outfitters’ selling ‘Colonial Outfits, Ready to Wear Suits, Raincoats’ at number 33. 'F. C. Bayley, Shirt Maker and Glover, Indian Outfitter' and 'Havilland Eyesight Institute, First Floor' is at number 34. The Bath Hotel and a premises of J. Lyons and Company is at number 35. A sign for Watkins and Doncaster, supplier of equipment to observe insect life is at number 36 with a butterfly sign hanging from the window. There is also a sign for 'Rayson and Company, Grocers, Tea and Coffee Merchants'. On the left, at the corner with Buckingham Street, number 37/38 is a four-storey building with a shop occupied by Hope Brothers, Outfitters. A traffic island in the road has two decorated bollards and hanging from the central lamp post are capes, possibly belonging to traffic policemen. Adjacent to Barclays Bank is Villiers Street, built by Nicholas Barbon in the 1670s on the site of York House, the property of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham. The street connects the Strand with the Embankment. Number 1 Villers Street is a four-storey building with signs for Chemist and Druggist, Dispensing Chemist, Chemist and Optician. Number 3 is The Sandwich House advertising 'Refreshments'. All these building were demolished and a modern office block with retail units is on the site. On the far left is a footbridge built in 1878 to join the extension of the Charing Cross Hotel on the eastern side of Villiers Street to the original building on the western side. It is still in use. Below is a sign for The Griffin pub founded in the seventeenth century. In 2005 was renamed the Bell & Compass.
