Daily Encounters: Photographs from Fleet Street

Winston Churchill and Irish journalist and Conservative politician Brendan Bracken (1901-1958) survey bomb damage to the Houses of Parliament, London, in 1941. Photograph: Keystone Press/Getty

A doctor injects a 'truth drug' into the arm of a volunteer in an experiment monitored by Express journalists in 1945. Photograph: Daily Express/Getty

Two women reading the daily papers at the original Lyon's Teashop (opened in 1894) in London's Piccadilly in 1957. Photograph: Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Getty

Models and showgirls Mandy Rice-Davies (centre right) and Christine Keeler (behind), surrounded by press photographers as they leave the Old Bailey during the trial of Dr Stephen Ward, a major figure in the Profumo Affair on July 22 1963. Photograph: Evening Standard/Getty

Photographers move in for a picture of Beatles drummer Ringo Starr, as he goes into hospital to have his tonsils removed in December 1964. Bottom middle, with grey hair and glasses, is Bob Dean of Associated Press, bottom right is Frank Hudson of the Daily Mail, top middle is Sid Biddell and top right is Harry Sheldrake of Barretts. Photograph: Fox Photos/Getty

Ronald and Reginald Kray with Frances Shae, at her wedding to Reggie in 1965. Photograph: Express Newspapers/Getty

Mick Jagger and Robert Fraser being driven from court in London in 1967. Photograph: Ted West/Getty

Hitchcock on home turf ... Alfred Hitchcock with news of another necktie strangling, London in July 1971. Photograph: Evening Standard/Getty

Steve Jones, Glen Matlock (back), Johnny Rotten (John Lydon) and Paul Cook of the Sex Pistols in 1976. Photograph: Daily Mirror/Getty

Lady Diana Spencer surrounded by press photographers shortly before the announcement of her engagement to Charles, Prince of Wales in 1980. Photograph: Ian Tyas/Getty