Editing Strand, London (section)

==Cultural references==
The Strand is the subject of a famous [[music hall]] song "[[Let's All Go Down the Strand]]", composed by [[Harry Castling]] and [[Clarence Wainwright Murphy|C. W. Murphy]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mfiles.co.uk/scores/lets-all-go-down-the-strand.htm|title=Let's All Go Down the Strand|publisher=Music Files Ltd|access-date=27 December 2015}}</ref> The song opens with a group of tourists staying the night at Trafalgar Square while about to embark for the [[Rhineland]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://monologues.co.uk/musichall/Songs-L/Let-Go-Down-Strand.htm|title=Let's All Go Down The Strand|publisher=Music Hall Monologues|access-date=28 December 2015}}</ref> The chorus of "Let's all go down the Strand – have a banana"{{efn|The phrase "have a banana" was not part of the original song but was popularly inserted by singers; at the time the banana was an exotic delicacy.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://joemoransblog.blogspot.co.uk/2011/01/banana-returns.html|title=The banana returns|publisher=[[Joe Moran (social historian)|Joe Moran]]|date=17 January 2011|access-date=28 December 2015}}</ref>}} is now recognised as a stereotypical part of [[Cockney]] music hall{{sfn|Moore|2003|p=198}} and parodied by English comedian [[Bill Bailey]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/berkshire/content/articles/2008/01/29/aldworth_orchestra_feature.shtml|title=Orchestral delights|work=BBC Berkshire|access-date=28 December 2015}}</ref> [[John Betjeman]] used the title of the song for a television documentary made for [[Associated-Rediffusion]] in 1967.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/526134|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090116000908/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/526134|url-status=dead|archive-date=16 January 2009|title=Betjeman's London: Let's All Go Down the Strand|work=[[British Film Institute|BFI]]|access-date=18 December 2008}}</ref> In the same year, [[Margaret Vyner|Margaret Williams]] used it for a stage comedy.<ref>{{cite book|first=Margaret|last=Williams|title=Let's All Go Down the Strand|publisher=Evans Plays|location=London|year=1967|isbn=9780237494858|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T6oaAQAAMAAJ}}</ref> Australian-born composer [[Percy Grainger]] used the name for his 1911 piano trio ''[[Handel in the Strand]]''.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Oxford Dictionary of Music|author1=Michael Kennedy |author2=Tim Rutherford-Johnson |author3=Joyce Kennedy |editor=Tim Rutherford-Johnson|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=347|isbn=978-0-19-957854-2|date=15 August 2013}}</ref>

[[Virginia Woolf]] wrote about the Strand in several of her essays, including "Street Haunting: A London Adventure",<ref>{{cite book |title=Literature in Society |publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing |year=2012 |isbn=978-1-4438-4392-8 |page=64}}</ref> and the novel ''[[Mrs. Dalloway]]''.<ref>{{cite book |title=Walking the Victorian Streets: Women, Representation, and the City |url=https://archive.org/details/walkingvictorian00nord |url-access=registration |first=Deborah |last=Epstein Nord |publisher=Cornell University Press |year=1995 |page=[https://archive.org/details/walkingvictorian00nord/page/247 247] |isbn=978-0-8014-8291-5}}</ref> [[T. S. Eliot]] alluded to the Strand in his 1905 poem "At Graduation" and in his 1922 poem "The Waste Land" (part III, The Fire Sermon, v. 258: "and along the Strand, up Queen Victoria Street").<ref>{{cite book |title=T. S. Eliot and the Art of Collaboration |first=Richard|last=Badenhausen |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2005 |isbn=978-1-139-44280-0}}</ref> [[John Masefield]] also referred to a "jostling in the Strand" in his poem "On Growing Old".<ref>{{cite book |title=Introduction to Poetry |page=132 |publisher=Rex Bookstore, Inc |isbn=978-971-23-1205-2 |year=1998}}</ref> The poem "Buses on the Strand", written in 1958 by [[Richard Percival Lister]], featured in [[Transport for London|TFL]]'s "Poems on the Underground" scheme in 2013, appearing in tube carriages all over London. The scheme celebrated the 150th year of the London Underground, showing works by poets with close London connections.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://poetrysociety.org.uk/product/london-poems-on-the-underground-85-set-of-six-posters/ |title=Poems on the Underground |publisher=The Poetry Society |access-date=29 January 2024}}</ref>

''[[The Strand Magazine]]'', which began publishing in 1891, was named after the street. A [[BBC World Service]] arts and culture radio series was called ''[[The Strand (radio)|The Strand]]''.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/arts/ |title=Arts and Culture |work=BBC World Service |access-date=18 December 2008}}</ref> [[Bush House]], situated on the Strand, was home to the World Service between 1941 and 2012.{{sfn|Weinreb et al.|2008|p=117}}

The standard British ''[[Monopoly (game)|Monopoly]]'' board has Strand in a group with the nearby [[Fleet Street]] and [[Trafalgar Square]].{{sfn|Moore|2003|p=185}}