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Childhood In Hoo
This view is instantly familiar! There was a sweet shop right there which was a favourite destination on walks into the village. I lived with my family in Hoo for two or three years in the late 1950s. My father was Eric Cox; my mother, ...Read more
A memory of Hoo in 1958 by
Gadshill Place
I lived in Higham for 2 years before moving to Canada. I had 4 children who attended a school in Vancouver BC named Charles Dickens School. After 6 years I took a trip back to the UK with my wife and kids. I went to Higham and we were ...Read more
A memory of Higham by
Gads Hill Place School
Adele you are correct, there was (still is?) a tunnel from the main house under the main road to the garden where the "Swiss Chalet" used to be in the garden there. I believe the chalet has long-sice been moved to Rochester ...Read more
A memory of Gadshill in 1948 by
My First Job
I worked and lived at the Golden Lion Hotel, beginning when I was 19, fresh out of Westminster Hotel School, when I was a trainee/assistant manager there from 1959-63 or 64, with the exception of the winter of 1962/63 when I worked in ...Read more
A memory of Hunstanton in 1959 by
I Hate Reedham
The day after our trip to London, I woke in the morning and was told to immediately get dressed and put on my new shoes and overcoat by mother. We dropped Bernard at Aldersbrook School and then caught a bus into Wanstead Tube Station, ...Read more
A memory of Purley in 1950 by
Rod Hull And Miss Havisham
I took part in a simple survey of Restoration House in the early 1990s when the Local Authority were considering buying the property from the children's entertainer Rod Hull (of Emu fame). He had fallen into disastrous ...Read more
A memory of Rochester in 1993
Railway Waggon At Holt Fleet
A family member used to have his home in a railway carriage at Holt Fleet. It may be that various members of my family lived there at different times. If anyone remembers the carriage I would dearly love to hear from ...Read more
A memory of Holt Fleet by
Newick 1950's Village Of Character With Its Share Of Characters.
The 1955 photos reflect a time well remembered by myself and many of the following will be recalled by old 'locals'. N90085. Home to Arthur Schlater and Norwegian wife. Not widely known is ...Read more
A memory of Newick
Living In Litherland
My family moved to Osborne road in litherland as my father got a job in Norwest, we lived in a prefab, i remember all the children coming together to play ball tick, hide and seek, skipping and hopscotch and we called the ...Read more
A memory of Litherland in 1958
Tulse Hill Boys School
whats ever happened to the class of dickens house from 1965 till 1971
A memory of West Norwood in 1966 by
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Gas lights overhang the crammed shop windows of the timbered building that became Mr Sapsea's house in Charles Dickens' last, unfinished, book The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
However, the house had been made very popular because of Dickens's 'Barnaby Rudge'; also, a convenient omnibus service from Ilford station was being run by Powling's widow.
This red-brick Georgian house, with bay windows and surmounted by a small white cupola, was coveted by the author Charles Dickens ever since he was a boy living at Chatham; he often passed it on long
This red-brick Georgian house, with bay windows and surmounted by a small white cupola, was coveted by the author Charles Dickens ever since he was a boy living at Chatham; he often passed it on long
for the public service, such as cabs and lighting and good roads and order, is admirably managed at both places; but I very much doubt if 'old salts' would recognise the Portsmouth of Charles Dickens
for the public service, such as cabs and lighting and good roads and order, is admirably managed at both places; but I very much doubt if 'old salts' would recognise the Portsmouth of Charles Dickens
for the public service, such as cabs and lighting and good roads and order, is admirably managed at both places; but I very much doubt if 'old salts' would recognise the Portsmouth of Charles Dickens
for the public service, such as cabs and lighting and good roads and order, is admirably managed at both places; but I very much doubt if 'old salts' would recognise the Portsmouth of Charles Dickens
In the mid-Victorian period this was Fenton's Old Curiosity Shop, a second-hand shop taking its name from Dickens's novel, and looking like Steptoe's living room.
Famous visitors have included Dickens (who wrote about it in ‘Pickwick Papers’), George II in 1736, Louis XVIII of France in 1807, and Lord Nelson in 1800.
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