Charles Dickens - Chandos Place, London, UK
N 51° 30.614 W 000° 07.452
30U E 699553 N 5710488
This plaque, to Charles Dickens, is high on a building in Chandos Place close to the junction with Bedford Street in London. The plaque notes that Charles Dickens worked here as a boy.
Waymark Code: WMM2M0
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 07/09/2014
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The blue plaque tells us that:
As a boy
Charles Dickens
worked here
1824 - 1825
The Beyond the Blue Plaque Blog tells us:
Warren's Boot Blacking Factory where Dickens worked as a boy 1824 and 1825.He hated this period in his life,but the experience at the Blacking Factory and his families struggles against the debtors prisons,to which his father John Dickens was breifly incarcerated in Marshalsea Debtor's Prison,played a role in some of his later works.