Daily Telegraph 20th century Size:medium In the background two burglars

In the background two burglars are brazenly going about their business in an illustration of the inefficiency of parish law enforcement during the 18th century

which encouraged the growth of a cheap daily press

On 30 April 1978

of 92 Narrow Street

This oil painting by GW Joy was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1895 and at the Paris Salon in 1896

Daily Telegraph 20th century Size:medium In the background two burglarsDaily Telegraph, Fleet Street. George Davison Reid photographed the Daily Telegraph's new building from across Fleet Street. The first of the American style newspaper palaces in the street, it was designed for the new owners in 1928. The upper floor of the 'Neo Graeco Egyptian' building incorporated a director's penthouse suite. The Telegraph building was the most prominent in Fleet Street until it was upstaged by the black glass Daily Express