Around 10,000 fans, some of whom had begun queueing on Sunday, paid £40 a ticket to transform the denouement of the 115th championships into the most vividly memorable of sporting occasions.
Queuing had begun at both the Norfolk and Norwich and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King's Lynn, some 45 miles away, at about 16 00 GMT on Wednesday.
Emma Dickson, the Green parliamentary candidate for Islington North, said queues at a polling station at a primary school had begun to build at 7.15am.
Queues of people carrying their few possessions, some in donated holdalls, had begun forming before dawn outside a warehouse where processing took place.
Long queues have begun forming at petrol stations in Gaza.
With The Force Awakens fast approaching (the queues have begun), Star Wars' always ardent fanbase is being driven to go over the franchise's mythology more than ever, and a new fan theory is gaining some traction today.
All 15,000 tickets for Centre Court have already been sold, but spectators began queuing in the early hours of Saturday morning just to get inside the All England Club and grab a place in front of the big screen.
The city's Spiritual Civilization Office has begun a monthly "Learn to Queue Day," surely welcome to all who have been victims of the scramble to board a Chinese bus.
Thus reassured, students and housewives began queuing at bank branches for application forms.
