The women's Press Club, whose members included most of Fleet Street's top women journalists. 1946 The six hundred yards of thoroughfare which stretches from Temple Bar to Ludgate Circus, and which has borne the name of Fleet Street for more than seven hundred years, is unique. It is the only street in the world's capital cities which is entirely devoted to the production of newspapers and magazines, and since the days of Henry Muddiham and his 17th century newsletters it has seen the rise of the British press, from the ancient and dignified Times to the apotheosis of modern journalism, Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express.