Excerpt from The Annals of Fleet Street: Its Traditions Associations
Fleet Street is a subject that cannot fail to have an interest for anyone who cares for the memories and associations with which the London thoroughfares in general, and this one in particular, are impregnated. The curious thing is that there has never before been a history of Fleet Street written; the nearest attempt to such a work being the Memorials of Temple Bar, by T. C. Noble, a book of the greatest value, which, besides dealing with the famous Bar, has much to say about the street to which this structure once formed the western entrance. With this exception, I do not know of any volume devoted to this large and fascinating subject, and therefore I hope no apology is needed for this further contribution to the great and ever-growing literature of London.
Where one is needed, however, is for the sins of omission and commission in this book, which the reader will find out for himself, and about which, I feel sure, I am the last person he would expect to be more explicit.
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