2-699-234 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Strand from the Thames, Sixteenth Century', (1881). View of large houses on the Strand in London. The name comes from the Old English 'strond', meaning the edge of a river, as the street originally ran alongside the north bank of the River Thames. Places marked are: Bedford House, Burley House, Somerset House, Arundel House, Essex Stairs, Whitefriars Stairs, and Harrow on the Hill in the distance. From Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places. Westminster and the Western Suburbs, by Edward Walford, Vol. III. [Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris & New York, 1881]