From "The Descriptive Album of London" by George H Birch 1896 - Extract text : " FLEET STREET, noted for its literary associations, is one of the busiest streets in London. It runs from Ludgate Circus to the Strand. The Fleet, once a brook, now a sewer, from which it takes its name, flows through Holborn Valley and empties into the Thames at Blackfriars Bridge. The debtors' prison, where " Fleet Marriages were performed (described so well by Besant, in ' 'The Chaplain of the Fleet "), once stood in this neighbourhood. The names of Shakespeare, Ben Johnson, Dryden, Goldsmith, &c., come to the r
From "The Descriptive Album of London" by George H Birch 1896 - Extract text : " FLEET STREET, noted for its literary associations, is one of the busiest streets in London. It runs from Ludgate Circus to the Strand. The Fleet, once a brook, now a sewer, from which it takes its name, flows through Holborn Valley and empties into the Thames at Blackfriars Bridge. The debtors' prison, where " Fleet Marriages were performed (described so well by Besant, in ' 'The Chaplain of the Fleet "), once stood in this neighbourhood. The names of Shakespeare, Ben Johnson, Dryden, Goldsmith, &c., come to the recollection as one traverses Fleet Street, where there is still much literary work done, and where there are several important newspaper and publishing offces. "
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