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Description: | Fleet Street was the centre of London's publishing industry. Temple and Blackfriars stations were used at rush hour predominantly by commuting newspaper workers.
This postcard was the second in a series published by the Underground called London Nooks and Corners. The illustration, by Sidney Thomas Charles Weeks, was also produced as a poster. A montage of famous people and buildings associated with Fleet Street, it promotes off-peak leisure travel to the area.
In the top right is a portrait of Sir Christopher Wren (1632-1723) alongside St Bride's Church, which he rebuilt after The Great Fire of London (1666). To the left are images of the novelist Samuel Richardson (1689-1761) and his tomb in St Bride's. Even though the newspapers industry has moved out of Fleet Street, St Bride's is still thought of as the printers' and journalist's church.
The other portraits are of Dr Johnson (1709-1784), Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774), Charles Lamb (1775-1834) and Sir William Blackstone (1723-1780). | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Transport Work | Temporal: | c1914 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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