The Strand
The Strand is London's shopping and theatre borough, a busy, well-off district full of parks, shops and easy pickpocket targets. The Templar Victor Lynch rules it in 1868, and it holds the Alhambra Music Hall, Scotland Yard and St. Pancras station.
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Good to know
- Templar overseer: Victor Lynch.
- Templar Hunts: Louis Blake, Argus and Rose Bartlett, and Peter Needham.
- Blighter strongholds: Clare Market and St. Giles Rookery.
- Bounty Hunts: Sylvia Duke, Milton King and Gilbert Fowler.
- Factory: Lynch's Fine Ornamentation.
- Music boxes in the Strand hold discs 7, 10, 16 and 25.
What the borough is like
Elegant streets and squares sit beside some of the worst slums in London. The Metropolitan Police work out of Scotland Yard here, and Maxwell Roth keeps his base at the Alhambra Music Hall.
Liberating the Strand
Clear Lynch's Templars, strongholds, bounties and factory, then take his challenge. He agrees to the gang war on condition that he can bring electrochemical bombs, so expect explosives once he joins in. Winning Gang War: The Strand hands the borough over.
Story memories set here
Jacob's partnership with Roth runs through the Strand, from Strange Bedfellows and its trip to St. Pancras station to the confrontation at the Alhambra in Final Act. The Bartletts' Templar hunt takes you to their pub, the Bed and Bottle.
- Strange BedfellowsStrange Bedfellows is Jacob's first outing with Maxwell Roth, leader of the Blighters, who invites him to dinner at the Alhambra Music Hall and proposes they hurt Starrick together. Roth's first idea is to blow up a dynamite shipment at St Pancras station.
Final ActFinal Act ends Sequence 8 at the Alhambra Music Hall, where Maxwell Roth stages a masked performance for Jacob. You steal a mask to get in, deal with Roth's decoys and corner him above the stage.- A Long Night Out on the TownA Long Night Out on the Town is the final Train Hideout memory: Bob, the driver's apprentice, has gone drinking in the Strand instead of oiling the engine. As Jacob you follow a trail of clues to find him before a gang of Blighters finishes him off, then get him home.
- Argus and Rose BartlettArgus and Rose Bartlett is a Templar hunt in The Strand against the owners of the Bed and Bottle, a pub and lodging house linked to several missing-person cases. Perform a cover kill on one of them for full sync.
- Clare MarketClare Market is a gang stronghold in The Strand, named for the neighbouring food market and run under Victor Lynch. Burn the heist plans and keep lookouts from calling reinforcements for full sync.
- Gang War: The StrandThe Strand gang war is the decisive fight against Victor Lynch's Blighters. Lynch agrees to the terms on condition that he fights with electrochemical bombs, so expect explosives once he joins.
- Gilbert FowlerGilbert Fowler is a bounty in The Strand for an illiterate arsonist who burns down printing houses out of spite. Catch him scouting his next target, kidnap him and deliver him to Abberline alive.
- Locked in... to Die!Locked in... to Die! is the sixth Dreadful Crimes case: the music critic Byron Cashan is found dead in a room locked from the inside, in a lodging house in the Strand. You check each tenant's room and the basement to work out how the killer reached him.
- Louis BlakeLouis Blake is a Templar hunt in The Strand against a Cambridge-educated speaker who tours London's parks campaigning to bring back child labour. Kill him with a headshot for full sync.
- Milton KingMilton King is a bounty in The Strand for a blackmailer who sees himself as a Robin Hood, though he keeps everything he takes. He always has two bodyguards; kidnap him and bring him to Abberline alive.
- Nigel in for the ChopNigel in for the Chop is the second Train Hideout memory: Nigel Bumble has been locked in a police carriage in the Strand after a brawl in which his gang killed a Templar. As Evie, you make the evidence against him disappear before the Chief Inspector arrives.
- Peter NeedhamPeter Needham is a Templar hunt in The Strand against a man obsessed with classical myth who plans to blow up the streets to expose the Roman ruins underneath. Kill him with explosives for full sync.
- St. Giles RookerySt. Giles Rookery is a gang stronghold in The Strand, built when the Blighters bought up Britain's worst slum just as plans were made to clear it. Free and protect the captured Rooks for full sync.
- Sylvia DukeSylvia Duke is a bounty hunt in The Strand for a career criminal wanted for almost everything, who travels with brutes and bodyguards. Get past her escort, kidnap her and deliver her to Abberline alive.
- The Berlin SpecimenThe Berlin Specimen is the first Charles Darwin memory: Darwin asks you to meet a German colleague at Charing Cross station and bring him and a valuable fossil safely across London. Blighters are already searching the crowds for him.
- The Mystery of the Twice-Dead Professor!The Mystery of the Twice-Dead Professor! is the fifth Dreadful Crimes case: the anthropologist Professor Byng was buried after a heart attack, then turned up bleeding at his own door and died again. You investigate his home, the cemetery, the university and an abandoned house in the Strand.
- Alhambra Music HallThe Alhambra Music Hall is Maxwell Roth's theatre on Leicester Square in the Strand, the Blighter leader's base and the stage for Jacob's final showdown with him. Several of Jacob's memories with Roth start here.
- Bed and BottleThe Bed and Bottle is a pub and lodging house in the Strand run by the Templars Argus and Rose Bartlett, who use it to make guests disappear. Their Templar Hunt brings you here.
- Charing Cross stationCharing Cross station is a railway terminus in the Strand beside Trafalgar Square. Several memories point you here, from the End of the Line engine heist to Darwin's fossil delivery.
- Clare MarketClare Market is a Blighter stronghold in the Strand, held for Victor Lynch next to the food market that gives it its name. It is one of the two strongholds you capture to take the borough.
- Covent GardenCovent Garden is the market district of the Strand, a database landmark in Syndicate. George Westhouse jokes in the opening memory that the twins could play nightly at Covent Garden.
- Scotland YardScotland Yard is the Metropolitan Police headquarters in the Strand. Several Jack the Ripper memories involving Inspector Abberline reference it.
- St. Giles RookerySt. Giles Rookery is a Blighter stronghold in the Strand under Victor Lynch, set in one of the worst slums in Britain. Capturing it is one of the two stronghold jobs in the borough.
- St. Mary le StrandSt. Mary le Strand is a church at the east end of the Strand, one of the Queen Anne churches. In game it uses a generic church model shared with other London churches.
- St. Pancras stationSt. Pancras station is a new railway terminus in the Strand. In Strange Bedfellows, Jacob escorts Maxwell Roth there, blows up a store of explosives and steals a Templar train.
- York WatergateThe York Watergate is an old river gate by the Thames in the Strand, all that remains of York House. It is a database landmark.
- Secret of London #07Secret of London #07 is one of Michel Reuge's music boxes, hidden in The Strand. Open it and you take disc #07, a key to Reuge's vault, along with a short verse that is a riddle of years spent raging and years locked away.
- Secret of London #10Secret of London #10 is one of Michel Reuge's music boxes, hidden in The Strand. Open it and you take disc #10, a key to Reuge's vault, along with a short verse that makes the moon his mistress and the owl his companion, with night birds playing his sad music.
- Secret of London #16Secret of London #16 is one of Michel Reuge's music boxes, hidden in The Strand. Open it and you take disc #16, a key to Reuge's vault, along with a short verse that blames a shaking palsy on stealing other people's pigs and poultry.
- Secret of London #25Secret of London #25 is one of Michel Reuge's music boxes, hidden in The Strand. Open it and you take disc #25, a key to Reuge's vault, along with a short verse that celebrates the bonny Bedlam boys who live on air and need no money.
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