Word on the Street
The noise and ambition of Fleet Street at its most industrious must have been an overwhelming experience. Author Charles Dickens was a former editor of The Daily News (a position in which he lasted only a couple of weeks), yet that didn’t stop him from marvelling at the place in A Tale of Two Cities. “Who could sit upon anything in Fleet-street [sic] during the busy hours of the day, and not be dazed and deafened by two immense processions, one ever tending westward with the sun, the other ever tending eastward from the sun, both ever tending to the plains beyond the range of red and purple where the sun goes down,” he wrote.
The author left an impression on the street in return too. His name is now inscribed upon a pavement outside Wine Office Court, one of eleven courts in this enclave
