WALKING WITH DICKENS A FREE I PHONE APP
DISCOVER THE PLACES THAT DICKENS KNEW AND WROTE ABOUT
Despite the fact that Dickens died over 140 years ago, it is still possible to walk around London armed with his books and see the locations he wrote about just as they were in his day.
But lugging armfuls of Charles Dickens classics all over London might not the best of ideas, so our Walking with Dickens iphone app takes the weight off your arms and, instead, presents you with an exciting self-guided walk on which you will be able to read excerpts from Dickens works at the exact locations that Dickens set them. No piles of books to lug around. No leafing through pages to find a particular quote about a particular Dickensian location. No trying to figure out where you are and where you should be heading to next on a map of London. It's all there on your iphone.
In short we've done the work so that you can just enjoy a great tour as you walk through Dickens London.
A STEP BY STEP GUIDE TO DICKENS LONDON
Written by Dickens expert Richard Jones and designed by Christian Lewcock, Walking with Dickens starts at Temple Underground Station and spirits you back in time to explore the very streets that Dickens knew, lived in and wrote about.
In the course of this exciting 2 hour tour you will step into the tranquil oasis of the Middle and Inner Temple, an area that has changed little, if at all, since Dickens wrote of it "you can read on its gates "who enters here leaves noise behind."
You will take a walk along Fleet Street with Jerry Cruncher of A Tale of Two Cities fame.
You will see the dining hall inside which Dickens set the atmospheric fog-laden opening of Bleak House - his most scathing attack on the very fabric of Victorian society - in which he talks of the Lord High Chancellor sitting in his Court of Chancery at the very heart of the fog!
You will see the home of Dickens great friend and business advisor, John Forster, plus the Old Curiosity Shop, as well as sundry other locations that featured in the life, times and works of Charles Dickens.
You will be guided by GPS around the various locations, so getting lost is not an option!
The walk makes suggestions for suitably atmospheric pub stops en route and, thanks to a series of evocative black and white photographs and sketches, that show the locations as they were in Dickens day, you really will get the feeling that you've been transported back in time and that you really are Walking With Dickens.