- Junction of Fleet Street and Saint Dunstan’s Court
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51.514227, -0.108262 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)
- Memorable sign on the pavement
- How many “eyes” does the topmost space invader have?
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4
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Historical background
Fleet Street
Fleet Street is named after the River Fleet, the biggest underground river in London. It links together the business part of the old town, the City of London, and the royal part, the City of Westminster. Fleet Street has been one of the most important streets since the Roman times.
The street became famous in the beginning of 16th century when printing businesses flourished here. It started when William Caxton's apprentice, Wynkyn de Worde, set up his printing business in Fleet Street. De Worde wanted to be closer to his customers, lawyers, living in the nearest inns, and the most educated people of the time, the clergy of St Paul’s Cathedral. Following de Worde, a lot of his colleagues and competitors, printers, writers, editors, and their customers established their businesses in Fleet Street. 200 years later, in 1702, the first English newspaper, the Daily Courant (no longer exists) was printed here. Since then Fleet Street has become the centre of London’s periodic press. Building No. 135 was occupied by the Daily Telegraph and No. 121-128 by the Daily Express. Across the road from the Daily Express was Reuters agency whose history started by pigeon mail. Reuters was the last printing agency to leave Fleet Street in the spring of 2005. Today, a lot of publishers have moved their offices to the cheaper districts of London. Despite the fact that the best printing and publications time was over, Fleet Street remains the symbol of British National Press.
// by Jon Doe (Own work) [CC BY-ND 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/)], via Flickr
Present in routes of categories Lion-Light, Lion-Pro, Horseman
Passed by: 63/69 (91%).
By categories:
- Horseman: 1/1 (100%)
- Lion-Light: 24/25 (96%)
- Lion-Pro: 38/43 (88%)