Fleet Street

Known as ‘ink street’, Fleet Street was home to printing and publishing from the 1500s with the first books in this country, right up to the 1980s when London’s newspaper industry which once dominated the street, decanted east. Now, Fleet Street has become a generic business street, but its rich history lives on in the ghost signs and stories of people that lived and worked there; perhaps most famous is Samuel Johnson who in 1755 collated the first definitive English dictionary. We’ll also pass one of London’s most historic pubs, a beautiful church and take a peek inside one of London’s ancient legal areas, once home to the Templar Knights, a legacy of which still remains from the 12th century.