Travel Reference
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You'll see barristers in modern business suits and ties, plus a few in traditional wigs
and robes, as they prepare to do legal battle. The wigs are a remnant of French manners of
the 1700s, when every self-respecting European gentleman wore one.
• Get lost. Don't worry—you'll eventually spill back out onto the busy street. Return to
the building that houses Prince Henry's Room, which marks the spot where the Strand be-
comes...
Fleet Street
“The Street” was the notorious haunt of a powerful combination—lawyers and the media.
In 1500, Wynkyn de Worde moved here with a newfangled invention, a printing press,
making this area the center of an early Information Age. In 1702, the first daily newspaper
appeared. Soon you had the
Tatler,
the
Spectator,
and many others pumping out both hard
news and paparazzi gossip for the hungry masses. Just past St. Dunstan church (described
next), you'll see a building decorated with mosaic signs with the names of some bygone
newspapers: the
Dundee Evening Telegraph,
the
People's Journal,
and so on.
