He also has a South African spider named after him, Araneus drygalskii ( Strand, 1909 ), based on material collected on the Gauss expedition.

The voluntary life-saving club is based at Trebarwith Strand and also has members from Boscastle, Camelford, etc.

* The Strand ( Ballycastle Beach ), which has a European Blue Flag.

The Strand Theater is a performing arts center on Main Street that has been restored, and hosts concerts and films for the borough and surrounding area.

Tärnaby, a small village in the municipality, has fostered the internationally famous alpine skiers Ingemar Stenmark, Stig Strand and Anja Pärson.

The town was once primarily a fishing village, but has grown substantially in modern time, along with the rest of the Grand Strand into a popular tourist and retirement location.

Møn also has a number of popular beach resorts, particularly in East Møn with Ulvshale to the north and Råbylille Strand, Klintholm Havn and Hårbølle on the south side of the island.

The southern section of the abandoned subway between the Embankment and the Strand Underpass has been converted into a branch of the Buddha Bar chain of bar / restaurants.

Strand also has many sport facilities: There are a lot of football pitches spread around the municipality, as well as local fitness centres.

* The Strand Leisure Park in Gillingham has an open-air swimming pool on the banks of the River Medway as well as other leisure attractions including tennis courts and a narrow-gauge railway.

The Strand advertises that it has " 18 Miles of Books ", and is well-known among New Yorkers for its collection of publishers ' overstock, used, rare, and out-of-print books, as well as the chaos on and around its shelves.

The Strand occupies 55, 000 square feet of space while Powell's flagship Burnside location has over 68, 000.

The city has many restaurants, concentrated on Palmer Street in South Townsville, Flinders Street and to a lesser extend along the Strand.

The town centre has the largest concentration of stores with the Cameron Street Mall and the Strand Arcade offering smaller stores as well as the nearby Tarewa Centre and Okara Shopping Centre providing big-box format stores.

Yachts may currently moor either at Rye Harbour or at the Strand Quay at the edge of the town There have been numerous plans proposed for a modern yacht marina to be built at Rye, but each has foundered on economic or planning grounds.

The hotel has two well-known restaurants: the Grill Room ( usually known as the Savoy Grill ), on the north side of the building, with its entrance off the Strand, and the Savoy Restaurant ( sometimes known as the River Restaurant ), on the south side, overlooking the River Thames.

Since 1882 the High Court has sat in the Royal Courts of Justice in the Strand, London.

The town is well known for its three sandy beaches, the West Strand, East Strand and White Rocks, as well as the Royal Portrush Golf Club, the only golf club outside of mainland Great Britain which has hosted the Open Championship.

Portstewart Strand has been the most popular attraction of Portstewart to holiday-makers for generations.

The cliff path has panoramic views across the Strand and Downhill with Donegal in the background.

A tourism boom has left a legacy of buildings dating from the 1860s such as the terraced housing on Strand Street.

The Strand Leisure Park has an open-air swimming pool on the banks of the River Medway as well as other leisure attractions including tennis courts and a narrow-gauge railway.

Temple Bar refers to two places in London, the original barrier that in recent centuries has just been a gateway that marked the point where Fleet Street, City of London becomes the Strand, Westminster, and the actual gateway designed by Christopher Wren relocated to Paternoster Square, St Paul's Cathedral.

The Strand, London | Strand block of Somerset House, designed by William Chambers ( architect ) | William Chambers from 1775 – 1780, has housed the Courtauld Institute since 1989.

The pictures came to the attention of writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who used them to illustrate an article on fairies he had been commissioned to write for the Christmas 1920 edition of The Strand Magazine.

He had been commissioned by The Strand Magazine to write an article on fairies for their Christmas issue, and the fairy photographs " must have seemed like a godsend " according to broadcaster and historian Magnus Magnusson.

Among those who frequented the shop were members of a band called The Strand, which McLaren had also been managing.

Prior to 1900, the area occupied by what would become the Metropolitan Borough of Westminster had been administered by five separate local bodies: the Vestry of St George Hanover Square, the Vestry of St Martin in the Fields, Strand District Board of Works, Westminster District Board of Works and the Vestry of Westminster St James.

The House, situated near the Strand in central London, had been purpose-designed by the Adam Brothers ( James Adam and Robert Adam ) as part of their innovative Adelphi scheme completed in 1774.

The Fleet line was mentioned in a 1965 Times article, discussing options after the Victoria line had been completed — suggesting that the Fleet line could take a Baker Street – Bond Street – Trafalgar Square – Strand – Fleet Street – Ludgate Circus – Cannon Street route, then proceeding into southeast London.

On 30 November 1907, the short branch from Holborn to the Strand ( later renamed ) opened, which had been planned as the last section of the GN & SR before the amalgamation with the B & PCR was made.

Historically, this had been in stark contrast to the rapid growth affecting other beach communities along the Grand Strand.

When a scheme to unite a number of government offices on the site of Somerset House in the Strand was projected, his position did not give him automatic authoriy over the construction ; however when William Robinson, secretary to the board, who had been put in charge of the new building, died in 1775, Chambers became its architect.

The area to the north of the Strand was long thought to have remained as unsettled fields until the 16th century, but theories by Alan Vince and Martin Biddle that there had been an Anglo-Saxon settlement to the west of the old Roman town of Londinium were borne out by excavations in 1985 and 2005.

The use of the name " Covent "— an Anglo-French term for a religious community, equivalent to " monastery " or " convent "— appears in a document in 1515, when the Abbey, which had been letting out parcels of land along the north side of the Strand for inns and market gardens, granted a lease of the walled garden, referring to it as " a garden called Covent Garden ".

This had been done by other lines connecting with the CLR stations at Oxford Circus and Tottenham Court Road, but an interchange station was not initially constructed between the GNP & BR and the CLR because the tunnel alignment to British Museum station would not have been suitable for the GNP & BR's route to its Strand station ( later called Aldwych ).

Collecting his ' old bus ', Southern Cross, from the Fokker Aircraft Company in Holland where it had been overhauled, in June 1930 he achieved an east-west crossing of the Atlantic from Ireland to Newfoundland in 31½ hours having taken off from Portmarnock Beach ( The Velvet Strand ), just north of Dublin.

King's College received funding to build completely new Physics and Engineering Departments where vaults beneath the Strand level College forecourt had been destroyed by bombs during the War.

Ghezali's attorney, Anton Strand response to the news that Ghezali was reported to have been captured was: “ Yes, I ’ m surprised by it.

This had been done by other lines connecting with the CLR stations at Oxford Circus and Tottenham Court Road, but an interchange station was not initially constructed between the GNP & BR and the CLR because the tunnel alignment to British Museum station would not have been suitable for the GNP & BR's route to its Strand station ( later called Aldwych ).

Previous to the borough's formation it had been administered by five separate local bodies: the Vestry of St George Hanover Square, the Vestry of St Martin in the Fields, Strand District Board of Works, Westminster District Board of Works and the Vestry of Westminster St James.

The church is the second to have been called St. Mary le Strand, the first having been situated a short distance to the south.

The architecture of St. Mary le Strand proved controversial from the outset and the architect later expressed unhappiness at the way that his plans had been altered by the Commissioners.