Fleet Street

Fleet Street - named after the River Fleet, and one of London's best known streets, has long been a metonym for the British newspaper industry. However, Fleet Street - the Story of a London Street deals not with the industry that made its home there but with the rich and varied history of the area of a street which has become a household name. Tracing the story from Fleet Street's earliest beginnings David Brandon takes the reader on a tour of the area's most notable buildings, (Newgate Prison and Charterhouse to name but two). The book also looks at some of the street's most colourful characters, crime, justice and punishment in the area, oddities and curiosities, industry and commerce and the mysterious Cock Lane Ghost. Fleet Street - the Story of a London Street, which includes an extensive selection of illustrations, offers a truly comprehensive and wholly absorbing history of this renowned area of London and is sure to be of interest to historians as well as to London's residents and visitors.