St Bride's, the spiritual home for hundreds of journalists around the world, has been creating regular pieces of history down the centuries from its position in London's Fleet Street. Now, the church is about to embark on an historical chapter with a difference.

October, the usual month when churches are filled with fruit and vegetables to celebrate harvest festival, St Bride's will be filled with hundreds of newspapers from the UK and abroad to mark its very own unique harvest.

After the Great Fire of London in 1666 St Bride's was rebuilt to the designs of Sir Christopher Wren, one of his most expensive and elaborate churches. Since the sixteenth century the area was particularly associated with printing and latterly newspaper-making, so that St Bride's became known as the journalists' church. During the Blitz the church was fire-bombed on the night of 29th December 1940, and the nave was completely destroyed. In 1953 the work of reconstruction began, and the beautifully restored church was rededicated, in the presence of Her Majesty the Queen and Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh, on 19th December 1957.