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)

Last Days of the Raj was located off the Strand. (PROSE: Speed of Flight)

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)

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)