Postcard portrait view Model-B buses, cars, horse-drawn wagons, Edwardian people, The Strand to St Mary le Strand Church, London
WHS 'Aldwych Series' S1047 postcard, entitled 'The Strand, Showing St Mary Le Strand Church, London', a view likely taken from the upper windows of the Wellington Pub, built 1903. The baroque St Mary Le Strand Church was consecrated in 1723. The Strand facade of Somerset House is seen right of shot. At the corner of Aldwych (left of shot) stands the New Gaiety Theatre, which opened in 1904, closed in 1939, due to high modernisation costs, suffered bomb damage in World War 2 and was demolished in 1957, the site being occupied today by the ME Hotel, which opened in 2012. Next to the theatre (left mid-distance), the name 'Marconi House' is made out on a building originally the Gaiety Restaurant (1904-08) and the HQ of the Marconi Company 1912-33, the first wireless broadcasts being made from this building in 1922, when a tall antenna rose from the roof. The motorised double-deck buses in the picture, with the driver sitting outside under a roof canopy, are likely Model-B buses, introduced in 1910. The people wear Edwardian-style clothes. The card bears no stamp nor post-mark, but likely dates to 1912-13. The pavement trees (left of shot) are much bigger today.
Size: 1151px × 1696px
Location: The Strand, towards St Mary Le Strand Church, from Aldwych, London, United Kingdom
Photo credit: © robert harrison / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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