Charles Dickens' London spots – in pictures
A brief tour of the writer's haunts and the places he depicted in his novels
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Staple Inn Square, which Charles Dickens often mentioned for its tranquillity. In Dickens's last novel, the unfinished Mystery of Edwin Drood, he refers to 'a little nook called Staple Inn'
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Patrons drink at Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese pub, one of London's oldest pubs and one of Charles Dickens' favourites, alluded to in A Tale of Two Cities
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Rules restaurant is the oldest in London and, at the height of his fame, Dickens had a table reserved with a view over the blacking factory where he used to work as a boy
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Tour guide Jean Hayne of London Walks gives a Charles Dickens tour
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Prince Henry's Room on Fleet Street was formerly an inn frequented by Dickens as a young man
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Southwark Cathedral, which featured in Dickens' work
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The George, a pub in Southwark frequented by Dickens and other literary luminaries
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A handwritten note by the author on display at the Dickens Museum
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A plaque marks the principal residence of Dickens in London
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