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    Sweeny Todd of Fleet Street

    Sweeny Todd of Fleet Street

    Hen and Chicken Court is a narrow, confined dead-end alleyway that leads off Fleet Street; one of several such passages and corridors that have grown up over the centuries around this area of London known for its printing and publishing industries. Now I'm no detective, but I am guessing that originally it was a place that sold.... poultry. However it went on to become notorious as the premises of Sweeny Todd's barber shop. The story of Sweeny Todd was one of the most popular
    Dickens at Marshalsea Prison

    Dickens at Marshalsea Prison

    Tucked away along the length of a narrow alleyway near St George the Martyr church by Borough tube station is a wall with a gruesome and fascinating past. It is all that remains of the Marshalsea, one of the most notorious debtors prisons that existed in Borough in various forms for over 500 years. It was made famous by Charles Dickens who described the atrocious conditions with forensic accuracy in his novel Little Dorrit, but also featured in other novels, The Pickwick Pape
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