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Print Booklet Our฀Mutual฀Friend฀(1998) Dickens Trail tsteps to bring ©BBC Photo Library Photo ©BBC oo hi kens’ f s great Dic wor in ks t llow o li Fo fe. f you’ve enjoyed the IDickens Movie Trail, why not try one of our other฀themed฀trails? Visit www.kent.gov.uk/filmoffice for the latest set-jetting offers! Great฀Expectations฀(1946) ©BFI Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that the content of this publication is accurate and up-to-date at the time of printing, no liability can be accepted for any errors, omissions or misrepresentations of fact contained herein. “I have happy memories connected to Kent and am scarcely less interested in it than if I had been a Kentish man bred and born, and had resided in the county all my life.” Charles฀Dickens฀•฀1840 Dickens spent his early years living in Chatham and receiving his first experience of the rich and varied harles Dickens is landscapes of Kent when he and his father took long walks together the iconic novelist exploring Medway, Gravesham and who left behind Maidstone. C a nationally It was on one of these walks that Charles important literary legacy. Dickens first saw Gad’s Hill Place and To this day, many of his works vowed that he would one day return are adapted into much loved and buy this residence. film and TV adaptations. Many of his novels and the characters in them were inspired by the county of Kent and its people. We would like to invite you to step onto the Dickens Trail to celebrate the man Chatham Historic Dockyard that loved Kent. Follow in Dickens’ During his childhood in Chatham, footsteps and visit the many varied Dickens also met the good folk of Kent, and beautiful places in the county that many of whom left lasting impressions inspired him and the filmmakers who on the young boy. Much like the subsequently strove to bring his great dramatic landscapes of the county, works to life. many of its colourful residents found Dickens was a dedicated walker. 12 miles was Dickens was born in Portsmouth on their way into his novels. his average daily walk. He would walk in all 7th February 1812. At the age of His family was to spend only six years in weathers, turning ideas over in his mind. five, he and his family moved to Kent, when, due to financial difficulties, The walk we have chosen for you covers 6.6 miles and Kent where his father was stationed they had to move to London and includes places and landmarks that Dickens knew well. in The Royal Navy pay office at { Dickens was taken out of school to work To download the leaflet and for more information about the Chatham Historic Dockyard. walking in Kent please visit www.kent.gov.uk/explorekent at a factory to help provide for Walk produced in partnership with Kent Libraries and Archives. Front฀Cover฀Image:฀Oliver฀Twist฀(2007) the family. ©BBC Photo Library 2 15 49) NUMBER 1 hese Dickens had ten Lady Wootton’s Green, Canterbury experiences children with Reputedly the model Dickens used of London, Catherine for Dr. Strong’s house in ‘David too, found Hogarth, but Copperfield’, this elegant stucco fronted T Georgian house dominates the square their way into his great after many happy ©BBC Photo Library Photo ©BBC adjacent to the main entrance to The works, providing the years together, King’s School in Canterbury. It is not darker elements that their relationship open to the public and is now part of make his novels so deteriorated until Canterbury Christ Church University. Timothy Spall rich and his characters playing ‘Fagin’ in 1857, Dickens met 50) PEGWELL BAY HOTEL so memorable. Who hasn’t Oliver฀Twist฀(2007) Rochester actress Ellen 81฀Pegwell฀Road,฀Ramsgate฀CT11฀0NJ฀ heard of Oliver, Fagin and The ©BBC Photo Library Ternan and decided to separate Tel:฀01843฀599590 Artful Dodger, David Copperfield or from his wife the following year, which www.pegwellbayhotel.co.uk Great฀Expectations฀(1999) Pip, Magwitch and Miss Havisham? coincided with the completion of Located two miles west of Ramsgate renovations at Gad’s Hill Place. is the Pegwell Bay Hotel and the Sir However, his time in London was not Stanley Grey pub, the lunch spot the end of Dickens’ love affair with 47) HOUSE OF AGNES suggested by the bogus Captain Waters True to his word, Dickens had to the Tugges’s family in Sketches by Kent. As a grown man he visited the 71 St Dunstans Street, Canterbury bought his dream home as a Boz ‘The Tuggs’s at Ramsgate’. county on many occasions, including on CT2 8BN country retreat where he could write Tel:฀01227฀472185 his honeymoon with Catherine Hogarth 51) THE DICKENS CORNER undisturbed. ‘Great Expectations’, www.houseofagnes.co.uk in 1836 and for long summer stays in RESTAURANT ‘Our Mutual Friend’ and ‘The Following the High Street beyond Broadstairs before making good on his 7฀Market฀Square,฀Dover฀CT16฀1LZ฀ Mystery of Edwin Drood’ were all Westgate, a little further on the left, promise to buy Gad’s Hill Place. It is is the historic three gabled House of Tel:฀01304฀206692 written at Gad’s Hill and Dickens evident in many of Dickens’ novels that Agnes. It has an interesting history: built It was on the steps that the fictional received many illustrious guests at on the original site of a Roman pottery David Copperfield rested after Kent was his muse. kiln, it has been an inn for travellers numerous fruitless attempts to locate his house, including Hans Christian since the 13th century. In Dickens’ novel his Aunt Betsy Trotwood’s house in the Anderson, Henry Wadsworth ‘David Copperfield’ it was reputedly town, when he finally hailed a carriage Longfellow, Wilkie Collins, John the home of Mr Wickfield, lawyer to driver who had dropped a horsecloth David’s aunt Betsy Trotwood. Here and received the intelligence that led Leech, William Powell Frith and David stayed while he went to King’s them to be re-united. Once Igglesden Charles Fechter. School Canterbury on the other side of and Graves’ Dovorian Restaurant, it is the city. Mr Wickfield’s daughter, Agnes, known simply as Dickens Corner. ©BBCPhoto Library eventually became David’s second wife following the death of his first wife Dora. Now a hotel, which has recently Great฀Expectations฀(1946) Great฀Expectations฀(1999) been lovingly refurbished, the property Library Photo ©BBC benefits from the largest walled garden Initially, Dickens visited Broadstairs, in the city. where, from 1837-1859 he spent every summer breathing in the fresh sea air 48) THE KING’S SCHOOL and writing his legendary stories. While Canterbury CT1 2ES in residence at Fort House, Dickens Tel:฀01227฀595501 www.kings-school.co.uk wrote ‘Nickolas Nickleby’, ‘The Old The King’s School is said to be the Curiosity Shop’, ‘Barnaby Rudge’ model Dickens used for Dr Strong’s and ‘Oliver Twist’. During a stay in School in Canterbury to which David the nearby Royal Albion Hotel, which was sent by his aunt Betsy in ‘David Copperfield’. overlooks Viking Bay, Dickens put the final touches to ‘David Copperfield’. The฀Mystery฀of฀Edwin฀Drood฀(2012) 14 3 ©Terry Curran ©Terry 45) TUNBRIDGE WELLS Visitor Information Centre, The Corn Exchange, The Pantiles, Tunbridge Wells TN2 5TE Tel:฀01892฀515675 www.visittunbridgewells.com The Kentish spa town where the iron rich Chalybeate Spring was discovered in 1606, and later patronised by royalty, Bleak฀House฀(2005) was the setting of Miss Twingleton’s early romance with foolish Mr Porters in Dickens’ unfinished novel ‘The 43) THE SHIP AND LOBSTER Mystery of Edwin Drood’ and one of Mark฀Lane,฀Gravesend฀DA12฀2QB฀ Mr Finching’s many proposals to Flora in ‘Little Dorrit’. Tel:฀01474฀324571 www.shipandlobster.co.uk 46) CANTERBURY This pub, familiar to Dickens from his Visitor Information Centre, 18 High St, walks on the North Kent Marshes, is thought to be the most likely model for Canterbury CT1 2RA The Ship, one of the ‘lone public houses’ Tel:฀01227฀862162 in the ‘long reaches below Gravesend’, www.canterbury.co.uk Great฀Expectations฀(1946) ©BFI chosen for an overnight resting place for The historic city of Canterbury is Pip and Herbert during their attempt most closely associated with ‘David The nearby station in Higham to get the convict Magwich out of the Copperfield’. First published in 1850, country in ‘Great Expectations’. village allowed Dickens to travel a young David walks through the town 44) MAIDSTONE on his long way from London to Dover. much of Kent and brought his David later returns to Canterbury and is beloved Swiss Chalet all the way Visitor Information Centre, Maidstone sent to the King’s School from France in 58 boxes. It was Museum, St Faith’s St, Maidstone by his aunt Betsy. ME14฀1LH฀ on a return from another visit to Tel:฀01622฀602169 France accompanied by his mistress, www.visitmaidstone.com Ellen Ternan and her mother, that Dickens called the town Muggleton Charles Dickens was involved in a and described it as ‘a corporate town’ in terrible train crash just outside the ‘The Pickwick Papers’. Like Maidstone, village of Staplehurst. Having helped Muggleton had a jail: Maidstone Jail is Grade I listed and has an illustrious TV the survivors off the train, Dickens career, appearing both in ‘Porridge’ and was in great shock and it is said that ‘Birds of a Feather’. Most memorable is he never quite got over this tragic the hilarious cricket match between All Muggleton and Dingley Dell in Chapter experience.
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