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Strandlines Digital Community explores past, present, and creative lives of London’s most famous streets, the Strand. Tag your photos and memories #MyStrand.

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We welcome videos, audio & images, memories, poems, anecdotes & articles inspired by the people, places, objects & architecture, sights, sounds & smells of the Strand.
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We're back online after surviving the heatwave! Wait, can there be a better survival story than a cell-fie from a physics student @MiaoZhao5 at Kings? 👉https://t.co/huyzWODdyi

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New post up on Strandlines!! Feeling the ABBA vibe? Thoughts on the recent strike? It's all about Money, Money, Money! https://t.co/oYqXULiJRY

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Throughout the beginning of the nineteenth century, the lively London streetscape was buzzing with performers of different backgrounds. Amongst them shined Billy Waters, with a regular pitch outside the Adelphi. Read more about him here: https://t.co/6IfPcD3veO

[Wild Court @wildcourtpoetry]

"Nature never did betray the heart that loved her, /
but I have been betrayed – by a particle /
that leapt from continents away /
to this isolated corner /
right when spring was erupting."

Two new poems by Nicola Healey now up on Wild Court: https://t.co/srcDpVADID

[Strandlines @strandlines]

"Archives are a permanent record of the past – whether 500 years ago or yesterday – and of the lives of people and organisations. In fact, I like to say that the profession is more about people and their stories than about paper and data. Good archivists listen and counsel."

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New in our 'Voices from the Strand': a celebration of archive work and archivists, through the eyes of Dr Geoffrey Browell, the Head of Archives @KingsArchives 📚✨
Glimpsed through a week in his life, his role is hectic, varied, and never bores! https://t.co/NRCQwhw7jH

[Kitty Pridden @18thCent_Kitty]

Pidcock‘s Grand Menagerie of Wild Beasts and Birds, Great Room over Exeter-Change, in the Strand, London, Charles Tomkins, ca.1773-1810 via @britishmuseum - fantastic blog on the man & the menagerie by @sarahmurden -> https://t.co/Lru4qHAQPc

[National Portrait Gallery @NPGLondon]

We’re so excited to announce that three new artworks are being added to our Augmented Gallery trail, including this one of David Bowie 🙌

🎨 David Bowie by Stephen Finer, 1994 (c) Stephen Finer / National Portrait Gallery, London

[fran @Francheskyia]

Museum world people: where have you seen good examples of 'community' or 'alternative' interpretation alongside the official labels in a museum? If you have a photo that's a bonus! Thank you! #museums #museumhour

[Black Plaques @BlackPlaques]

Stand at this spot on the Strand #London in March 1791 and you'd see a three-legged horse. 🐴

[St Mary le Strand - The Jewel in the Strand @StMaryleStrand]

Thanks to generous support of @HeritageFundUK we are exploring new ways to open up St Mary le Strand church and to help more people engage with our heritage and story. Please share your ideas for things we might try! #StrandLondon #NationalLotteryHeritageFund #NorthbankBID

[Vicky Iglikowski-Broad 💙 @vicky_ig]

“You know that every woman ought never to go out without a hammer in her pocket, and never to go out, at least without touching one pillar box." Annie Kenney, Essex Hall, The Strand, London, 31 January 1913. (The National Archives: HO 45/10695/231366).

[Otto Saumarez Smith @OSaumarezSmith]

London and its villages from a fragment of the Sheldon Tapestry Map (1590s). I particularly like the windmills on Hampstead Heath.

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@eleanorjns if your research takes you to interesting Strand-related places, we'd love to be in touch and maybe think about showcasing it on our site 🙂

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@eleanorjns This isn't quite a museum, but our contributor Théophraste Frady often writes pieces uncovering hidden histories from the Strand: https://t.co/DGXeJzRsbe

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Bonus question: which design do you prefer?

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May 1868: after two years of debate and drama, George E. Street is appointed sole architect of the New Law Courts, now known as the Royal Courts of Justice. But what could the building have looked like had Street's design (pictured) not been chosen? A thread (1/8)

[Strandlines @strandlines]

Thanks to @teaemily_ for the fascinating peek behind the scenes of 19th century architectural drama! You can read more about the controversy and George E. Street's ambitions and demise in her wonderful piece: https://t.co/aQlnXY4vLq (8/8)