Ludgate Resources
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St Bride’s, Fleet Street, the journalists’ church
"...there had been a site of Christian worship alongside the Fleet River and close to the Lud Gate, now known as Ludgate Circus, in the heart of the ancient City of London, for about 1,000 years."
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John Gay’s Trivia (1716)
... in which the sewer goddess Cloacina rises out of the Fleet ditch
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Where to see the lost River Fleet
"The Fleet, London’s best known lost river, slices down from Hampstead Heath to the Thames at Blackfriars, enclosed entirely in Victorian sewer tunnels... well almost"
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The Daily Courant - Britain's first newspaper, and Elizabeth Mallet
Elizabeth Mallet, British journalist and publisher from London who published Britains first daily newspaper.
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The Daily Courant, March 11th 1702
Englands first national daily. Great images and background here
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Banging Out - Fleet Street Remembered
A documentary film based on oral history interviews with former printers and journalists.
