Complimentary Content
Soundtrack
A list of contemporary UK songs from 1983-85 to accompany your reading.
Let us know what else might work.
Ben Watt - Some Things Don't Matter
Style Council - With Everything To Lose
The Pale Fountains - Something on my Mind
Wah! Hope (I Wish You'd Believe Me)
Nick Heyward - Whistle Down The Wind
and of course...
Beggar & Co. - Somebody Help Me Out. and
The Jam - Down I the Tube Station at Midnight (Yes, 1978, I know, but it fits the narrative!)
Videos
The BBC's Brief History of Fleet Street
Bob Hoskins' complaints about South Bank redevelopment mirror that of the Docklands a couple of years later.
"Eating High" a wonderfully dated newsreel about the GPO Tower restaurant.
Visit some of the London Underground's abandoned stations.
Orwell's Down & Out Live
Articles
The Telegraph's History of Fleet Street.
Two articles from the Independent and Guardian give a historical perspective on the overnight exodus.
For a more detailed and contemporary view, check out Linda Melvern's 'The End of the Street'
Last reporters leave Fleet Street
History of Centre Point
Fleet Street traffic furniture
At one point, each chapter was going have a chapter illustration from the unique traffic furniture in and around Fleet Street. Do you know where they are?
