The Strand (street)

The Strand was a street in London, near Charing Cross (PROSE: A Big Hand for the Doctor) and Charing Cross tube station. (AUDIO: The Lonely Clock)
== Locations ==
There were at least two hotels located on the Strand; the Strand Hotel and the Savoy Hotel. (TV: Deep Breath, PROSE: Timewyrm: Exodus) The Dog and Duck pub, Aldridge's Clockwork Repair and Restoration, (PROSE: A Big Hand for the Doctor) and Coutts were were also located on the Strand. (PROSE: Birthright, Prelude Birthright) There was also a Lyons' Corner House on the Strand in the 20th century. (AUDIO: 1963)
Last Days of the Raj was located off the Strand. (PROSE: Speed of Flight)
Trafalgar Square was located near the West Strand, which intersected with Northumberland Street. (AUDIO: The Year of the Bat)
== History ==
In the 18th century, a zoo was located in an ordinary building on the Strand owned by Pidcock. It contained many animals stuck in small cages, including an elephant which had been famously winched to the second floor. (PROSE: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street) Godfather Stendec wanted to put a menagerie in the Eleven-Day Empire version of this building. (PROSE: The Book of the War)
On 26 June 1890, the Eleventh Doctor took Amy Pond and Rory Williams to the Savoy Hotel. (TV: The Power of Three)
In the 1890s, Mr Kempston and Mr Hardwick's solicitors' firm was located at 24 Gilmore's Building on the Strand. (AUDIO: The Lonely Clock)
In 1900, Aldridge's medical practice was located on the Strand, and in that year the First Doctor visited him to replace a hand he'd lost to the Soul Pirates. (PROSE: A Big Hand for the Doctor)
The Seventh Doctor recalled once playing marbles with Virginia Woolf along the Strand. (AUDIO: The Quantum Possibility Engine)
Barbara Wright met with her aunt Cecelia every year at the Lyons' Corner House on the Strand on her aunt's birthday on 23 November. On that date in 1963, Barbara had become a companion of the First Doctor and so was unable to make it. Despite this, on one occasion the TARDIS arrived in London at 13:15 on that day to find that time had frozen due to a TARDIS malfunction. Barbara used the opportunity to visit her frozen aunt at the Corner House. (AUDIO: 1963)
In 1969, after writing a successful article for the Daily Chronicle, James Stevens celebrated at the Savoy. A drunken Stevens had sex with a woman named Natasha in her room. At the same time, Noël Coward lived in the Savoy Hotel. (PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy)
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