Norfolk Street, Strand

It then ran to a strand of public gardens after the Victoria Embankment was built (1865–70), what is now Temple Place.

The Street was built on land once occupied by Arundel House and its gardens, the property of the Howard family, Dukes of Norfolk;[1] a dukedom (before which earldom) of medieval root.

[2] Under Duke of Norfolk, Surrey and Arundel are subsidiary earldoms, plus Howard is used, the surname of the family.

1856) was based there[10] and the building was also the registered address of a large number of consulting engineers, such as Henry Metcalfe Hobart.

The Western Electric Company had an early radio station (2WP) on the third floor of the building in 1922.

View of the Junction of Howard Street and Norfolk Street, London . John Crowther , watercolour, 1880.
The vicinity of Norfolk Street (centre) on a 1950s Ordnance Survey map.
Map by Wenceslaus Hollar (c. 1670s) showing Arundel House.
Oswaldestre House, 33–35 Norfolk Street in 1905.