... Alfred Highfield (21), barman, was executed at Newgate this morning, for the murder of Edith Poole, wh2se throat be cut in Drury Lane. The murder was a deliberate and brutal one. Highfield bad courted the girl five or siz years, and they were to be married ...

... the September of 1745, God Save the King, in the form in which we now sing it, was sung with tumultuous enthusiasm at Drury Lane and elsewhere in London, and from that hour to this it has held the first a liiiie among the national anthems of the the ...