Trafalgar Square draw up plans for clearing a large area south of Kent's stable block, and as far east as St Martin's Lane. His plans left open the whole area of what became Trafalgar Square, except for a block in the centre, which he reserved for a new building for the Royal Academy. The plans included the demolition and redevelopment of buildings between St Martin's Lane and the Strand and the construction of a road (now called Duncannon Street) across the churchyard of St Martin-in-the-Fields. The Charing Cross Act was passed in 1826 and clearance started soon after. Nash died soon after
Fleet Street Charles Dickens' works. The eponymous club in "The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club", more commonly known as "The Pickwick Papers", is set in the street, as is Tellson's Bank In "A Tale of Two Cities". The poet John Davidson wrote two works in the late 19th century titled the "Fleet Street Eclogues". Arthur Ransome has a chapter in his Bohemia in London (1907) about earlier inhabitants of the street: Ben Jonson, the Doctor (Samuel Johnson), Coleridge, Hazlitt and Lamb; and about Temple Bar and the Press Club. Fleet Street is a square on the British Monopoly board, in a