The Heritage of Fleet Street

The Heritage of Fleet Street
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Vol. IV: Personal stories

Personal stories from Fleet Street

This new section of our website is for the personal stories of those who worked in Fleet Street during the 'hot metal' era before computerised typesetting took over. The newspapers then moved away from their traditional homes in and around Fleet Street and into buildings elsewhere which were more suitable for the new technology

We hope that these stories will give you a flavour of what Fleet Street was actually like, with its very crowded pavements, its roads jammed with traffic including large lorries loaded with very large rolls of newsprint, and small vans painted with newspaper slogans dashing off to railway stations with copies of newspapers for national distribution.

401 - Jacky Hyams - Secretary to Sunday Mirror News desk
402 - Neil Murray - Sub-editor, Daily Mirror
403 - Malcolm Cowan - Systems analyst, Mirror Group
404 - Paddy O'Gara - features department, Daily Mirrork
405 - Roy Greenslade, sub-editor
406 -Paul Duffett - Circulation Sales accounts department
407-David Eccleston - stereotyper
408 - Mick Clayton, compositor
409-Michael Ash - Office Boy, News Chronicle
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