Comments on: A Walk Through Dickens’ London https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/02/22/a-walk-through-dickens-i/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Fri, 23 Feb 2024 21:20:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 By: Bailey Jones https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/02/22/a-walk-through-dickens-i/#comment-1551223 Fri, 23 Feb 2024 21:20:10 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=198984#comment-1551223 Dickens’ London. Such joy. Those cards are fabulous.

Your journey makes me recall my own trips to The Grapes, the inspiration for The Six Jolly Fellowship Porters from Our Mutual Friend, now part owned by fellow north westerner Sir Ian McKellen. Doughty Street is also worth a visit.

I also remember a long ago visit to ‘Bleak House’ in Broadstairs, then a museum now a private house. It was incredible to see a copy of some pages from the original manuscript of David Copperfield full of scoring outs and revisions.

I think there is a still a small Dickens’ musem on the front at Broadstairs, overlooking the cliffs. The very same grassy cliff top from which the fictional Betsie Trotwood made it her mission to banish all donkeys.

Magic stuff.

]]> By: achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/02/22/a-walk-through-dickens-i/#comment-1551015 Fri, 23 Feb 2024 10:47:45 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=198984#comment-1551015 Such comparisons between architectural images from different time periods are always exciting. I did this quite extensively when I repeated the travelogue “A Stroll to John O’Groats” by the author Isobel Wylie Hutchison, which was published in NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE in 1956, in 1978.

Finding the camera location was a particular challenge. I would have to do it again today!

Love & Peace
ACHIM

]]> By: Bernie https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/02/22/a-walk-through-dickens-i/#comment-1551008 Fri, 23 Feb 2024 10:30:41 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=198984#comment-1551008 A magnificent idea! Thank you!

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