her_welshness
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Led by Bermondsey Bill (The Legend That Continues):
Charles John Huffam Dickens was born on the 7th February 1812, in Portsmouth and he came to London at the age of 12. To celebrate his 200th the Lost crew have put their divining sticks to one side, and have prepared London – Lost Dickens 2012 - A cycle ride.
There is no doubt that many of the places Dickens mentioned in his novels were familiar to him, in 1895 it was said that: “he was not content simply to reproduce the places, persons and things he had seen and known. He passed them through the crucible of his imagination, fused them, re-combined their elements, changed them into something richer and rarer, gave them forth as products of his art.”
In The Mystery of Edwin Drood, John Jasper, Edwin’s sinister uncle displayed dual personas, those of a choir master and an opium eater, a supply of the latter to chew through may well be of use, as we ride through the Dickensian London Landscape, of which very little remains, and conjure up in our imaginations those places Dickens wrote about in such detail.
We travel through Dickensian London from Bermondsey to Holborn, on to Soho, Trafalgar Square, Lincon’s Inn, The City and back to Southwark.
We’ll stop at Quilips’ boatyard, look at the architecture that so impresses John Browdie in Nicholas Nickleby, Look in on Mrs Bardell, with whom Pickwick rented a room, we follow in the footsteps of Oliver Twist and John Dawkins crossing from the Angel to Saffron Hill, and so much more. We explore the real Dickens, where he worked, where he drank, and while doing so we can dip in and out of novels and taste what London was like in that period, look at how it has changed, and how that is reflected today.
Should I mention, we'll cross a lost river too?
Please do bring your own books, thoughts and knowledge and contribute to the ride, don’t forget your opium and two good locks!
Bermondsey Square
Sunday 12th February 10.00am
We had around 34 on the last ride
Charles John Huffam Dickens was born on the 7th February 1812, in Portsmouth and he came to London at the age of 12. To celebrate his 200th the Lost crew have put their divining sticks to one side, and have prepared London – Lost Dickens 2012 - A cycle ride.
There is no doubt that many of the places Dickens mentioned in his novels were familiar to him, in 1895 it was said that: “he was not content simply to reproduce the places, persons and things he had seen and known. He passed them through the crucible of his imagination, fused them, re-combined their elements, changed them into something richer and rarer, gave them forth as products of his art.”
In The Mystery of Edwin Drood, John Jasper, Edwin’s sinister uncle displayed dual personas, those of a choir master and an opium eater, a supply of the latter to chew through may well be of use, as we ride through the Dickensian London Landscape, of which very little remains, and conjure up in our imaginations those places Dickens wrote about in such detail.
We travel through Dickensian London from Bermondsey to Holborn, on to Soho, Trafalgar Square, Lincon’s Inn, The City and back to Southwark.
We’ll stop at Quilips’ boatyard, look at the architecture that so impresses John Browdie in Nicholas Nickleby, Look in on Mrs Bardell, with whom Pickwick rented a room, we follow in the footsteps of Oliver Twist and John Dawkins crossing from the Angel to Saffron Hill, and so much more. We explore the real Dickens, where he worked, where he drank, and while doing so we can dip in and out of novels and taste what London was like in that period, look at how it has changed, and how that is reflected today.
Should I mention, we'll cross a lost river too?
Please do bring your own books, thoughts and knowledge and contribute to the ride, don’t forget your opium and two good locks!
Bermondsey Square
Sunday 12th February 10.00am
We had around 34 on the last ride
