Dickens Museum ~ Oct 2024

Spread over five floors, Charles Dickens’ London home is laid out as it may have looked when Charles Dickens lived here in the 1830s. Exhibits include Dicken’s writing desk.

While living here, he completed The Pickwick Papers (1837-38), wrote Oliver Twist (1837-38) and Nicholas Nickleby (1838-39) and made a start on Barnaby Rudge (1841).

Pets for the Victorians did not just include dogs and cats like we have today, but hedgehogs, squirrels, and wild birds. Dickens had three pet ravens, each called Grip, and a pet eagle, as well as other wild birds.

In the kitchen there is a hedgehog called Bill Spikes. Hedgehogs were often allowed in kitchens as they ate pests and were especially good at eating black beetles that plagued homes.

At the end of the visit, our group settled in ‘The Artful Tea Room’, named after the iconic Artful Dodger, for a contemporary twist on the traditional tea experience.

To find out more about Dickens’ house, go to:      https://dickensmuseum.com/