View of 84-92 Waterloo Road, Waterloo and the York Hotel on the corner with York Road. Four-storey York Hotel with a sign on a pediment and second-storey frieze of YORK HOTEL. Below, a sign for NICHOLSON GIN. On the ground floor a hanging sign BASS ON DRAUGHT. The adjacent four-storey terrace was erected on part of a piece of ground which had been purchased by the Archbishop of Canterbury from the proprietors of Waterloo Bridge, and by him, granted to John Field, wax chandler, and Agnes Bazing, spinster, by a building lease dated 25th March, 1824. These houses and those on Boyce Street (formerly Anne Street) were designed by L. N. Cottingham, who occupied No. 86 from its erection until his death in 1847. No 84 a Dry Cleaners and no 86 HARVEY and THOMPSON a pawnbroker with the three brass ball sign hanging from the second floor. Between them a sign for DENTIST. On the corner with Boyce Street no 88 CLARKS a corner store, no 90 a CAFE offering TEAS also has a sign for HOTEl. No 92 is a single-storey building, a bookseller. This buildings are now the site of the roundabout and IMAX cinema. The remaining building by the railway viaduct no 108 Waterloo Road, is the Hero of Waterloo Tavern and Hotel; this was demolished and is now a pedestrianised area. The railway viaduct carries trains from Waterloo East (formerly Waterloo Junction Station) across Hungerford Bridge to Charing Cross, it has a large sign for ILLUSTRATED EVERY WEEK, a popular photojournalism magazine. In the background, the main Waterloo Station opened in 1848 by the London and South Western Railway. Rebuilding of the station commenced in 1909 but was not completed until 1922 when it was officially reopened by Queen Mary. The roof and platforms were initially designed by J. W. Jacomb-Hood, but following his death in 1914, work was taken over by Alfred Weeks Szlumper. The main pedestrian entrance, the Victory Arch, was designed by James Robb Scott and is a memorial to 585 London and South Western Railway staff who were killed during World War One.
