The original location of the Berrow's Worcester Journal is long gone, but the following article suggests it was published in Sidbury from a house next to a Pub. The current Pub about 100 meters from where you are standing is said to be near the site of the original pub, so you're near the original offices, I think!
"The establishment of 1690 as the date of the first publication of the news-sheet which was to become Berrow's Worcester Journal is referred to by Valentine Green, the 18th century historian of Worcester, who records that a newspaper was established in the city in that year when William and Mary, newly on the throne, needed support in Worcester which had always been notably Stuart in its sympathies.
There are no existing copies of this news-sheet and the history of the paper does not become clear until 1709 when Stephen Bryan became the first proprietor, printer and editor of the Worcester paper. Bryan served his apprenticeship in London and took up his freedom in 1706. During the three years that elapsed before he took over the Worcester paper he was probably working as a journey-man. One difficulty Stephen Bryan had was that he could not set up business within the limits of Worcester without becoming a freeman at a cost of £20. He therefore took a house on the south side of the Cross Keys, Sidbury in St Michael's Parish, a part of the city then having ecclesiastical exemptions.
For a time at least he must have been his own editor, compositor, printer and publisher. One of his successors said: ''If we may judge him by his paper, he was a modest, quiet fellow, honest, outspoken and plain of speech and yet carrying an unconscious assumption of knowledge in his manner.'' He gave the paper the title of the Worcester Post-man. It carried on one side of its title an engraving of Queen Anne, plump but dignified, seated on her throne, and on the other side was the city coat of arms. In the issue following the Queen's death, a wood block of the now familiar galloping postman, blowing his horn to proclaim his approach, was used. (This incidentally, was not an original idea, being lifted from a paper called The Postman published in London). The paper was sold over a wide area in the Midlands from Gloucester and Tewkesbury to Bridgnorth, Wolverhampton, Birmingham and Warwick.
From the outset Bryan gave no local news at all. Worcester people wanted news of the world outside the city, of war, politics and Parliament. A transmitter of these depatches was the renowned writer of newsletters, Dyer. The paper cost 2d at first but in 1712 a stamp duty was imposed on newspapers - a halfpenny on a small sheet and a penny on a larger one. This stopped many papers altogether, but Bryan increased the size of his paper to five pages, a half-sheet being added, printed in pica, a slightly small type than in the other four pages, and increased the cost to 2 1/2d. There was generally only two advertisements but within six years, these had increased to an average of eight for which half-a-crown was charged. The imprint of one of these early papers runs as follows: ''Printed and sold by S Bryan, next the Cross Keys in Sidbury, and also by a woman, every Saturday from 10 in the morning till 4 in the afternoon near St Martin's Church in the Corn Market where all country people may be furnished.'' "
Oh, nearly forgot, there's some other kind of important building behind you too!