The wedding-cake spire of the printers' church half-lost in a November fret. CR
St Bride's Through the Fog
Arthur Penhale / The Fleet Street Archive
Rain-slick cobbles reflecting the lamps of the printing lanes off Fleet Street.
Wet Cobbles, Whitefriars
Arthur Penhale / The Fleet Street Archive
Hands setting type from memory, column by column, against the clock. CR
Compositors at Work
Arthur Penhale / The Fleet Street Archive
Rotary presses at full cry, the floor trembling beneath the pressmen. CR
The Print Room
Arthur Penhale / The Fleet Street Archive
The composing room by gaslight, every surface dark with a century of ink. CR
Ink and Gaslight
Arthur Penhale / The Fleet Street Archive
Boys shouldering the day's papers before the city has finished its breakfast.
Newsboys, Bouverie Street
Arthur Penhale / The Fleet Street Archive
A hansom cab waits in the wet as St Paul's looms through the smoke. CR
Hansom at Ludgate Circus
Arthur Penhale / The Fleet Street Archive
Bundles of the first edition stacked at the kerb, ink still warm from the machines. CR
The Morning Editions
Arthur Penhale / The Fleet Street Archive
First light over the newspaper quarter, the presses already an hour into the morning run. CR
Dawn on Fleet Street
Arthur Penhale / The Fleet Street Archive
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