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Images: A walk through Charles Dickens’ London

Feb 20, 2012  
      

London in the 21st century is not all that different from the heaving Victorian metropolis forever preserved in the novels of English writer Charles Dickens, whose 200th birthday was celevrated on 7 February this year. Fans of Dickens can still walk the same streets of the city — whose population helped to inspire such characters as Oliver Twist, Ebenezer Scrooge and Bella Wilfer — visit the writer's house and have a drink at some of his old watering holes. Read the complete Reuters itinerary at http://reut.rs/yThyPE

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Tour guide Jean Hayne of London Walks gives a Charles Dickens tour in London. Reuters

 

Letters carved into a desk used by Charles Dickens when he was a lowly clerk, before his ascendency to literary stardom. Reuters

 

Items of Charles Dickens are displayed at the Dickens museum at his former residence in London. Reuters

 

Items of Charles Dickens are displayed at the Dickens museum at his former residence in London. Reuters

 

The front of Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese pub, one of London's oldest pubs and one of Charles Dickens favourites. Reuters

 

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, London. Reuters

 

Charles Dickens's signature on a hand-written letter is displayed at the Dickens museum. Reuters