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Grub Street:

Originally the name of a street in Moorfields in London, much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries, and temporary poems; whence any mean production is called grubstreet.

- Samuel Johnson

Grubstreet! Thy fall should men and Gods conspire,
Thy stage shall stand, ensure it but from Fire.

- Alexander Pope, The Dunciad

OS X co-ord: 532557     OS Y co-ord: 181879     (Latitude: 51.519773 Longitude: -0.089217)
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