G. E. Street's Law Courts ("The Royal Courts of Justice"),
The Strand, London
Image and text scanned by Nathalie Chevalier.
Immediately to the west of Temple Bar, on the north side of the Strand, rises the Royal Court of Justice, a vast and magnificent Gothic pile, forming a whole block of buildings, with a frontage to the Strand of about 500 feet.
The Courts were formally opened on Dec. 4th, 1882, by Queen Victoria, in presence of the Lord Chancellor, the Prime Minister, and other dignitaries of the realm. The building cost about £75,000 and the site about £1,450,000.[text accompanying photograph]
The volume containing these images by an unidentified photographer bears the imprint "With H. and C. F. Feist's compliments" but no name, date, or place of publication, though the Feists were dealers in port wine, and Plate 30 demonstrates that the photograph must have been taken after 1902, and John R. Mendel offers evidence that it dates before mid-1906 [GPL].
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Last modified 10 October 2001