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June 14, 2005
So, farewell to Fleet Street
The Beeb reports that tomorrow Reuters moves from its 85 Fleet Street address, which has been its home for 66 years, to 30 South Colonnade, Canary Wharf.
The Old Cheshire Cheese is worth a visit, if you do get to Fleet Street, but mind your head if you go down to the cellar, and don't drink so much that you become befuddled and get lost. Rumour has it that a tour party from Atlantic City partook of too much Directors ale one lunchtime in 1988, became hopelessly confused, took a wrong turn and are still trying to get back to the tour bus. At every new moon, regulars report hearing "Gosh darn, Edie, if I told ya once, I told ya a thousand times, this ain't the way out" and catching a spectral glimpse of a large florid-complectioned retired man wearing shorts, a tee-shirt and clutching a handful of maps and a Nikon camera, his small henna-haired sunglasses-wearing wife meekly in tow.
Posted by daen at June 14, 2005 10:09 PM