B/W print; view of the Strand at Charing Cross looking east from Craven Street, by Topical Press, 1923

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Reference number	1999/12398
Description	View of the Strand at Charing Cross looking east from Craven Street in 1923. An early motor bus can be seen on the left-hand side. In the distance is the projecting BMA building. The perimeter of Charing Cross main line station's forecourt is on the right-hand side, just before which a neighbouring building displays a projecting UndergrounD sign.
Photographer	Topical Press
Dates	Jun 1923
Collection	Photographs
Object type	B/w print
Photograph number	U1828
Location	Acton Depot
Topics	Streets and buildings
Completeness	75% 75% ?

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  Text	Sign: Hotel Buffet Bar Grill Room & Restaurant Building: Bureau de Change Bus stop: Strand Sign: Photos for Passports Sign: Bureau de Change Sign: Australian Information Bureau Building: Jewellers. The London Goldsmiths Company. Silversmiths. Shop: A.B.C Tea Rooms Aerated Bread Co. Bus: To Liverpool St Hammersmith Bdy Walham Green Kings Rd Sloane Sq Victoria Station Charing Cross Strand Ludgate Cir Bank Advert: State Express Cigarettes Sign: Several Good Offices to be Let In this Building. Apply to Young & Co. Estate Agents, Second Floor 15, Strand, W.C.2. Phone Regent 3570.
  Annotation	THE STRAND, LOOKING EAST FROM CRAVEN ST., 1923. Observe the projecting B. M. A. building in distance; this marks the extent of the widening carried out in the 'Thirties of the last century - and the widening of the Strand is still proceeding, by quarter-century instalments, as it were. Coutts' Bank now occupies the site of the old Lowther Arcade, and the Underground hangs out its sign. Photograph (taken June, 1923) by Topical Press. Underground Copyright.

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  Shot	Medium exterior

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  Photographer	Topical Press, Jun 1923

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  Places

  Borough	Westminster,
  Location	Strand, Westminster, WC2

  People

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  People	Charles White -