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there. If you look very well and have good ears you are able to see the donkey's and
hear Mrs Trotwood screaming at them.
Have a look in David Copperfield, turn over the leaves till you are at the picture
engraved by Phiz of David telling his aunt that he is her nephew and you are back in
Broadstairs.
In front of the Dickens Museum in Broadstairs
There are also a lot of people who have the opinion that somewhere there in the
neighbourhood is the original for Bleak House, they are of course dissenters. A nice
story of that house was told at the AGM. The present day owner has painted some
outside walls in a different colour then the original, of course forbidden, restoration
to the old colours will cost him a fortune. He has the intention to make a kind of
Dickens memorial Hotel of the place where for more then £200 the lover of the
Dickensian past is able to put his head on a pillow in a room where Dickens ever
slept.
Out of the reprint of "Our English Watering Places, HHW 1852" is taken the
following sentence:
Charles Dickens wrote "Our English Watering Place in 1851He had come to stay in
Broadstairs in 1837 when he was twenty-five and already famous with "Pickwick
Papers," the first of his novels, appearing in fortnightly parts the year before. He was
to return again and again. After lodging first at 12, High Street, where he worked on
