A scheme to pedestrianise parts of The Strand is throwing light on the road’s gilded history, finds Jack Watkins.
‘Leet’s all go down the Strand,’ cries the Edwardian music-hall song, hailing it as ‘the place for fun and noise’. In the 1890s, it had more theatres, music halls, pubs and smoking rooms than any other street in London. However, more recently, it’s been just another traffic-dominated thoroughfare, more noted for its poor air quality. In…
