The church and hospital of Savoy, London: view from Southwark.
Credit: Wellcome Library, London. (http://wellcomeimages.org).
Engraving by G. Vertue, 1750. Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The Strand: the route from trade to power
Long gone are the grand houses that once lined this thoroughfare linking London's centres of government and commerce, but traces of their past grandeur can still be found, as Felicity Wenzel explains