The new Strand

Bone, Muirhead, Sir, 1876-1953 · 1908

On the left is the Church of Mary-le-Strand near it, to the right, a lofty modern building - the Gaiety Restaurant - light in tone, and in the background the Waldorf Hotel. In front of the new buildings is an empty space, enclosed by a hoarding, with young trees growing along the pavement on two sides of it. Near the corner of this empty space is a triangular staging, surmounted by a crane, erected during the progress of a new building in July, 1908. The black patch is raised, so as to cover the window, and there are three slight prominences on its upper outline. There is a dark line, slanting from left to right, which makes an acute angle with the straight line mentioned in XI. There are still four lines in the corner.