Rochester

Rochester

Image Albums

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Visual Items:

0000 — ROCHERSTER, High Street ( opposite Eastgate House). Dickens model for Mayor Sapsea's residence, The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

0003 — ROCHESTER ,High Street, old postcard c 1900. College Gate.

0004 — ROCHESTER CASTLE ,from the bridge. Great Britain Illustrated W. Westall, eng. Ed. Finden, 1832.

0006 — ROCHESTER CASTLE, Samuel Buck, 1735.

0007 — ROCHESTER CASTLE, W. Fearnside, History of London, Topography, eng. W. Henshall, 1861. Dickens requested burial in the churchyard near the moat. He explored the castle with his American visitors.

0008 — ROCHESTER CASTLE, W. Fearnside, Picturesque views, Thames..1834. 'Magnificent ruin said Mr. Augustus Snodgrass, with all the poetic fervour that distinguished him..' Dickens, Pickwick Papers, p 13.

0010 — ROCHESTER CASTLE, showing graveyard in the moat remains, where Dickens wished to be buried. Charles Dickens ' Rochester, Robert Langton, 1880.

0013 — ROCHESTER CATHEDRAL, Inscription dedication to Charles Dickens , south transept. Dickens ' younger and later years spent in Rochester . Charles Dickens and Rochester, Robert Langton, 1880.

0014 — ROCHESTER CATHEDRAL,Thomas Hearne,1804. '..the massive grey square tower rises before the sight of the jaded traveller..' Dickens. The Mystery of Edwin Drood, April 1870.

0016 — ROCHESTER FROM STROOD, Dickens Land, J. Nicklin, Blackie, 1911. 'The principal productions appear to be soldiers ,sailors, Jews,chalk, shrimp, officers and dockyard men..the smell that pervades..exceedingly delicious .'Dickens .

0017 — ROCHESTER Theatre Royal ( vandalised, sold). Dickens' first professional performance here in 1821, a tragedy ,Misnar -The Sultan of India. Renamed Lyceum, closed 1894.

0020 — ROCHESTER, 'Satis House' , 'Pip and Miss Haversham' George Williams, Ten Boys from Dickens, K. Sweetser,London 1904. ' My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian Name Philip...and came to be called Pip.' Dickens, Great

0024 — ROCHESTER, Bull Hotel, 'Royal Victoria Bull Hotel.' 1902. The Bull appears in 'Great Winglebury' in Dickens' Sketches by Boz, where Mr. Alexander Trott stays. (3)

0025 — ROCHESTER, Bull Hotel, coach entrance. 'The stranger walked briskly up the yard..'Pickwick. Image in The Real Dickens Land (1904).Kent Arch. Society ,2014.

0027 — ROCHESTER, Bull Hotel. ballroom. ' A long covered room,with crimson covered benches, and wax candles.. 'Pickwick. Image ,The Real Dickens Land (1904), Catharine Ward. Kent Arch. Soc. 2014.

0029 — ROCHESTER, Bull Inn, c 1899 ,glass slide, C. Ward, 'Do you remain here , Sir.. Not I,but you'd better, good house..' Pickwick. C. Ward, Real Dickens' Land ,1904. Kent Archaeological Society 2014.

0031 — ROCHESTER, Bull Inn, coach yard ,c.1899. 'The Stranger walaked briskly up the yard and turned into the High Street.. ' Pickwick. Glass slide ,C. Ward, published in C. Ward, Real Dickens' Land,1904.Kent Archaeological Society, 2014.

0033 — ROCHESTER, Bull Inn, staircase to ballroom c. 1899. Glass plate slide, C. Ward, 'Devil of a mess on the staircase,waiter..' Pickwick. (c) Kent Archaeological Society, 2014.

0034 — ROCHESTER, Bull Inn,bar entrance,c 1899. Negative C. Ward, K.A. Soc. 'Tickets at the bar sir - half a guinea each..' Pickwick. Kent Archaeological Society.

0037 — ROCHESTER, Cartographer R.Sale,1816. Rochester was a stage set for Charles Dickens, for Pickwick Papers, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. He lived close by at Gad's Hill.

0039 — ROCHESTER, Castle. Old postcard.

0041 — ROCHESTER, Cathedral crypt. Rock & Co. Princess Album 1863. A setting of Dicken's last novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood, 1870.

0043 — ROCHESTER, Charles Dickens and Rochester, Robert Langton, 1880. Illustration William Hull.

0045 — ROCHESTER, Chertsey's Gate - Jasper's Gatehouse in The Mystery of Edwin Drood. H. & C. Ward, The Real Dickens Land, Black, 1904. K.Arch.Soc. 2014.

0047 — ROCHESTER, Dickens ' Swiss Chalet, Kent on line.

0049 — ROCHESTER, Eastgate House, Dickens ' Swiss Chalet.

0051 — ROCHESTER, Eastgate House, The Nun's House in Dickens 'novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Charles Dickens and Rochester, Robert Langton, 1880.

0053 — ROCHESTER, Eastgate House, The Nun's House. 'Mr. Grewgious was discovered..in Miss Twinkleton's own sacred room..' The Mystery of Edwin Drood. H. & C. Ward, The Real Dickens Land, 1904.

0055 — ROCHESTER, Eastgate House. 'Good-bye, Rosebud, Darling' Luke Fildes. The scene outside in Dickens ' novel The Mystrery of Edwin Drood.

0057 — ROCHESTER, Eastgate House. The house ( now a museum) the backdrop where meddling Mr. Pickwick violates in 'The Unexpected Breakup of the Seminary for Young Ladies.' Hablot Browne (Phiz).

0060 — ROCHESTER, Gad's Hill, Sir John Falstaff ,1890. Charles Dickens lived in Gad's Hill House, opposite, admired since childhood. He built a tunnel under the road to the inn, to protect guests.

0061 — ROCHESTER, Gad's Hill. 'The cedars,Gad's Hill Place.' John Langdon, Youth and Childhood of Charles Dickens, 1888.

0062 — ROCHESTER, Gad's Hill. Photo. Catherine Ward, 'Rear of Gads Hill ' William Sharp, Literary Geography, 1904.

0064 — ROCHESTER, Gads Hill. 'Grip the Raven - Chpa. the last.' ill, Fred Barnard, Dickens, Barnaby Rudge. Musson Co. 1908. Dickens' pet raven.

0066 — ROCHESTER, High Street, Illustration from Robert Langton's Childhood and Youth of Charles Dickens, 1880. Book dedicated to Mary Hogarth.

0067 — ROCHESTER, High Street, Mr. Sapsea's House, opposite Eastgate House. The Real Dickens Land, H. & C. Ward, Blacks, 1904. Kent Archaeological Society, 2014.

0070 — ROCHESTER, Jasper's Gatehouse, setting in Dickens ' Mystery of Edwin Drood. Charles Dickens and Rochester, 1880.

0071 — ROCHESTER, Jasper's Gatehouse. Luke Fildes drawing of the Gatehouse which appears in Dickens' 'On Dangerous Ground' ( ch. 8 ), 1870 is exagerated in size to accomodate Jasper, Landless and Edwin Drood.

0073 — ROCHESTER, John Jasper lives here ,Dickens' organist in The Mystery of Edwin Drood ( 1870) .

0075 — ROCHESTER, Minor Canon Row, c. 1880. Setting in Dickens ' Edwin Drood and The Seven Poor Travellers. Charles Dickens and Rochester, Robert Langton, 1880.

0076 — ROCHESTER, Minor Canon Row. Setting in Dickens The Mystery of Edwin Drood. H. & C. Ward, The Real Dickens Land, Black, 1904.

0078 — ROCHESTER, R.Sale 1816. Dickens ' Rochester. Places mentioned in Dickens ' Great Expectations shown - The Bull Inn, The Cathedral, Watts Almshouses, and The Marshes.

0080 — ROCHESTER, Restoration House. Dickens ' Satis House ' where Dickens ' bitter Miss Havisham taught Estella the cruel lessons. Pepys met the silly shopkeeper in the Cherry Garden.

0083 — ROCHESTER, Six Poor Travellers, 16th charity house. 'I found it to be a clean white house of a staid and venerable air..' Dickens , 'The Seven Poor Travellers' 1854.

0086 — ROCHESTER, St. Bartholemew's Hospital, St. Barts founded in 1078, for the care of poor and lepers, closed in 2016. Medway Council. (2)

0088 — ROCHESTER, The Bull Hotel, J. Chettleburgh, In The Footsteps of Charles Dickens, William Addison, Rich and Cowan, 1955.

0090 — ROCHESTER, The Peace Coach crossing Rocheter Bridge, M.Dubourg, 1815. The new stone bridge that The Pickwickians would have used ( 1827-28).

0093 — ROCHESTER, The childhood and youth of C Dickens, Robert Langton, 1880. Dickens moved to Rochester aged four with his father

0095 — ROCHESTER, Theatre Royal ( gone ). Charles Dickens performed a tragedy called Misnar- The Sultan of India , in 1821. The detail ,probably stolen when the vacant building was vandlaised. libervitae.co.uk.

0097 — ROCHESTER, Theatre Royal ( vandalised, sold ) Charles Dickens first theatrical performances here in 1821, a tragedy called Misnar- The Sultan of India. Renamed Lyceum it closed in 1894.

0100 — ROCHESTER, Watt's Charity, ' The effigy of Master Richard Watts was bursting out of his tomb.' Dickens, Seven Poor Travellers. H.& C. Ward, The Real Dickens Land, Black, 1904. Kent Arch. Soc. 2014.

0101 — ROCHESTER, Watt's Charity, Setting for Dickens' Six Poor Travellers. Charles Dickens and Rochester, Robert Langton, 1880 .

0103 — ROCHESTER, Watt's Charity, Six Poor Travellers. ' Seven Poor Travellers', Reading by Charles Dickens, Christmas, 1854.

0105 — ROCHESTER, Watt's Charity, rear, and upstairs rooms. H. & C. Ward, The Real Dickens Land, Black, 1904.

0107 — ROCHESTER, Watt's Charity. Subject of Dickens ' Seven Poor Travellers.' H. & C. Ward, The Real Dickens Land, Black, 1904.

0110 — ROCHESTER, eng. E. Findon, Great Britain Illustrated, W. Westall, 1832. ' ..beautiful the appearance of every object around,as Mr. Pickwick leaned over the balustrades of Rochester Bridge cotemplating nature..the banks of the Medway ..'

0111 — ROCHESTER, engraving, W. Cooke, Select Views in Great Britain, 1825. Dickens' Dulborough in The Uncommercial Traveller (1860), and the Mudfog in The Mudfog Papers ( 1880).

0112 — ROCHESTER, gatehouse of Cathedral Close. Setting in Dickens' novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Charles Dickens and Rochester, Robert Langton, 1880.

0114 — ROCHESTER, town map on linen, 'survey'd & Plann'd, R. Sale, eng. Neele, 1816. Showing many places that appear in Dickens' novels, Great Expectations and The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

0116 — ROCHESTER,Bull Inn, The Owl Room (coffee room) c 1899 ,Glass slide, C. Ward, published in Real Dickens ' Land,, C. Ward ,1904. Kent Archaeological Society, 2014.

0118 — ROCHESTER,Minor Canon Row. Dickens calls this Minor Canon Corner ,where the Rev. Septimus Crisparkle kept house with the 'china sheperdess' The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

0120 — ROCHESTER. Image from Hogarth's Periginations at Rochester and Elsewhere. Inlcuded p. 8 in Robert Langton's Childhood and youth of Charles Dickens, 1880.

0124 — rochester - dickens map.

0125 — ROCHERSTER, High Street ( opposite Eastgate House). Dickens model for Mayor Sapsea's residence, The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

0127 — ROCHESTER , Cathedral precincts and gatehouse. Setting in Dickens ' novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood ( unfinished ). Drawing by William Hull ,unfinished after his death.

0129 — ROCHESTER CASTLE ,from the bridge. Great Britain Illustrated W. Westall, eng. Ed. Finden, 1832.

0131 — ROCHESTER CASTLE, Samuel Buck, 1735.

0132 — ROCHESTER CASTLE, W. Fearnside, History of London, Topography, eng. W. Henshall, 1861. Dickens requested burial in the churchyard near the moat. He explored the castle with his American visitors.

0133 — ROCHESTER CASTLE, W. Fearnside, Picturesque views, Thames..1834. 'Magnificent ruin said Mr. Augustus Snodgrass, with all the poetic fervour that distinguished him..' Dickens, Pickwick Papers, p 13.

0135 — ROCHESTER CASTLE, showing graveyard in the moat remains, where Dickens wished to be buried. Charles Dickens ' Rochester, Robert Langton, 1880.

0138 — ROCHESTER CATHEDRAL, Inscription dedication to Charles Dickens , south transept. Dickens ' younger and later years spent in Rochester . Charles Dickens and Rochester, Robert Langton, 1880.

0139 — ROCHESTER CATHEDRAL,Thomas Hearne,1804. '..the massive grey square tower rises before the sight of the jaded traveller..' Dickens. The Mystery of Edwin Drood, April 1870.

0141 — ROCHESTER FROM STROOD, Dickens Land, J. Nicklin, Blackie, 1911. 'The principal productions appear to be soldiers ,sailors, Jews,chalk, shrimp, officers and dockyard men..the smell that pervades..exceedingly delicious .'Dickens .

0142 — ROCHESTER Theatre Royal ( vandalised, sold). Dickens' first professional performance here in 1821, a tragedy ,Misnar -The Sultan of India. Renamed Lyceum, closed 1894.

0145 — ROCHESTER, 'Satis House' , 'Pip and Miss Haversham' George Williams, Ten Boys from Dickens, K. Sweetser,London 1904. ' My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian Name Philip...and came to be called Pip.' Dickens, Great

0149 — ROCHESTER, Bull Hotel, 'Royal Victoria Bull Hotel.' 1902. The Bull appears in 'Great Winglebury' in Dickens' Sketches by Boz, where Mr. Alexander Trott stays. (3)

0150 — ROCHESTER, Bull Hotel, coach entrance. 'The stranger walked briskly up the yard..'Pickwick. Image in The Real Dickens Land (1904).Kent Arch. Society ,2014.

0152 — ROCHESTER, Bull Hotel. ballroom. ' A long covered room,with crimson covered benches, and wax candles.. 'Pickwick. Image ,The Real Dickens Land (1904), Catharine Ward. Kent Arch. Soc. 2014.

0154 — ROCHESTER, Bull Inn, c 1899 ,glass slide, C. Ward, 'Do you remain here , Sir.. Not I,but you'd better, good house..' Pickwick. C. Ward, Real Dickens' Land ,1904. Kent Archaeological Society 2014.

0156 — ROCHESTER, Bull Inn, coach yard ,c.1899. 'The Stranger walaked briskly up the yard and turned into the High Street.. ' Pickwick. Glass slide ,C. Ward, published in C. Ward, Real Dickens' Land,1904.Kent Archaeological Society, 2014.

0158 — ROCHESTER, Bull Inn, staircase to ballroom c. 1899. Glass plate slide, C. Ward, 'Devil of a mess on the staircase,waiter..' Pickwick. (c) Kent Archaeological Society, 2014.

0159 — ROCHESTER, Bull Inn,bar entrance,c 1899. Negative C. Ward, K.A. Soc. 'Tickets at the bar sir - half a guinea each..' Pickwick. Kent Archaeological Society.

0162 — ROCHESTER, Cartographer R.Sale,1816. Rochester was a stage set for Charles Dickens, for Pickwick Papers, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. He lived close by at Gad's Hill.

0164 — ROCHESTER, Castle. Old postcard.

0166 — ROCHESTER, Cathedral crypt. Rock & Co. Princess Album 1863. A setting of Dicken's last novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood, 1870.

0168 — ROCHESTER, Charles Dickens and Rochester, Robert Langton, 1880. Illustration William Hull.

0170 — ROCHESTER, Chertsey's Gate - Jasper's Gatehouse in The Mystery of Edwin Drood. H. & C. Ward, The Real Dickens Land, Black, 1904. K.Arch.Soc. 2014.

0172 — ROCHESTER, Dickens ' Swiss Chalet, Kent on line.

0174 — ROCHESTER, Eastgate House, Dickens ' Swiss Chalet.

0176 — ROCHESTER, Eastgate House, The Nun's House in Dickens 'novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Charles Dickens and Rochester, Robert Langton, 1880.

0178 — ROCHESTER, Eastgate House, The Nun's House. 'Mr. Grewgious was discovered..in Miss Twinkleton's own sacred room..' The Mystery of Edwin Drood. H. & C. Ward, The Real Dickens Land, 1904.

0180 — ROCHESTER, Eastgate House. 'Good-bye, Rosebud, Darling' Luke Fildes. The scene outside in Dickens ' novel The Mystrery of Edwin Drood.

0182 — ROCHESTER, Eastgate House. The house ( now a museum) the backdrop where meddling Mr. Pickwick violates in 'The Unexpected Breakup of the Seminary for Young Ladies.' Hablot Browne (Phiz).

0185 — ROCHESTER, Gad's Hill, Sir John Falstaff ,1890. Charles Dickens lived in Gad's Hill House, opposite, admired since childhood. He built a tunnel under the road to the inn, to protect guests.

0186 — ROCHESTER, Gad's Hill. 'The cedars,Gad's Hill Place.' John Langdon, Youth and Childhood of Charles Dickens, 1888.

0187 — ROCHESTER, Gad's Hill. Photo. Catherine Ward, 'Rear of Gads Hill ' William Sharp, Literary Geography, 1904.

0189 — ROCHESTER, Gads Hill. 'Grip the Raven - Chpa. the last.' ill, Fred Barnard, Dickens, Barnaby Rudge. Musson Co. 1908. Dickens' pet raven.

0191 — ROCHESTER, High Street, Illustration from Robert Langton's Childhood and Youth of Charles Dickens, 1880. Book dedicated to Mary Hogarth.

0192 — ROCHESTER, High Street, Mr. Sapsea's House, opposite Eastgate House. The Real Dickens Land, H. & C. Ward, Blacks, 1904. Kent Archaeological Society, 2014.

0195 — ROCHESTER, Jasper's Gatehouse, setting in Dickens ' Mystery of Edwin Drood. Charles Dickens and Rochester, 1880.

0196 — ROCHESTER, Jasper's Gatehouse. Luke Fildes drawing of the Gatehouse which appears in Dickens' 'On Dangerous Ground' ( ch. 8 ), 1870 is exagerated in size to accomodate Jasper, Landless and Edwin Drood.

0198 — ROCHESTER, John Jasper lives here ,Dickens' organist in The Mystery of Edwin Drood ( 1870) .

0199 — ROCHESTER, John Jasper's Gateway ( from the cathedral), F.G. Kitton, F.G. Kitton, The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

0202 — ROCHESTER, R.Sale 1816. Dickens ' Rochester. Places mentioned in Dickens ' Great Expectations shown - The Bull Inn, The Cathedral, Watts Almshouses, and The Marshes. (2)

0204 — ROCHESTER, Restoration House, Crow Lane. The Satis House in Dickens' Great Expetations. The Real Dickens Land, H.& C. Ward 1904. Damaged glass slide. Kent Arch. Soc, 2014.

0206 — ROCHESTER, Restoration House. In Dickens ' novel Great Expectations this house appears as Satis House. Charles Dickens and Rochester, Robert Langton, 1880.

0207 — ROCHESTER, Schnebbelie, eng. Wolnoth, Hughson's London, 1806. Dickens' last home at Gads Hill , over the bridge , up the hill on Watling Street. Great Expectations ( 1860-1 ) early chapters set in Rochester and surrounding country.

0209 — ROCHESTER, Six Poor Travellers, 16thC charity house. The subject of Dickens' Seven Poor Travellers, Dickens ( the seventh traveller) narrating the Christmas story.

0210 — ROCHESTER, Six Poor Travellers, sleeping room. Dickens narrated the Christmas story 'Seven Poor Travellers' , as the seventh traveller.

0212 — ROCHESTER, Star Hill, Theatre Royal. Young Dickens was often taken to productions at the theatre. Not altered in 1888. John Langdon, The Childhood and Youth of Charles Dickens, 1888.

0214 — ROCHESTER, The Bull Hotel. ' Do you remain here. Sir..Not I, but you'd better - good house, nice beds.' Pickwick. Glass slide, image in The Real Dickens ( 1904), Catharine Ward. Kent Arch. Soc. Collections, 2014.

0216 — ROCHESTER, The Vines ,and Restoration House. Setting in Dickens' novel Great Expectations. Robert Langton, Charles Dickens and Rochester, 1880.

0217 — ROCHESTER, The Vines, and Restoration House. Postcard. The Vines appears as The Monk's Vineyard in Dickens 'Mystery of Edwin Drood' Here ,sitting under the Seven Sisters elm trees Edwin Drood breaks his engagement with Rosa.

0219 — ROCHESTER, The setting for Chalres Dicks, Pickwick Papres. The originla cover issued in 1836.

0221 — ROCHESTER, Theatre Royal ( gone ). Lavishly decorated, in 20th c left roofless, many pieces such as decorative tiles stolen. Dickens performed Misnar , a tragedy, in 1821.

0223 — ROCHESTER, Theatre Royal (gone ) ,although Dickens ' perfomed one of his first tragedies here in 1821, no attempt was made to restore the theatre, left roofless for many years and vandalised. Robert Langton, Childhood of Dickens... 1888.

0224 — ROCHESTER, Theatre Royal ,tile decoration in former theatre, where Dickens performed Misnar - The Sultan of India, in 1821.

0227 — ROCHESTER, Watt's Charity, Six Poor Travellers, washing room. The Real Dickens' Land, H.& C. Ward, Blacks, 1904.

0229 — ROCHESTER, Watt's Charity, The Six Poor Travellers. Image, H.& C. Ward (1904) (wrong caption). The real Dickens Land, Black 1904.

0231 — ROCHESTER, Watt's Charity, supper room. H. & C. Ward, The Real Dickens Land, Black, 1904. Kent Archaeological Society, c. 2014.

0233 — ROCHESTER, Watt's charity, dormitory landing. The Real Dickens Land, H. & C. Ward, Black, 1904. c. Kent Archaeological Society Collections, 2014.

0234 — ROCHESTER, William Miles, Sexton 1847-1900. Canon William Telfer, Rochester Cathedral Annual report,1967. Mystery of Edwin Drood.

0238 — ROCHESTER, model for Dickens ' Uncle Pumblechook's Store in Great Expectations ,High Street. Photo. M. MacKenzie, Dickens' Fellowship.

0240 — ROCHESTER, view from Finsbury. Kershaw & Son. c 1850. Dickens' would have recongnised this scene.

0242 — ROCHESTER,Bull Inn. Staricase to ballroom. 'Devil of a mess on the staircase..'Pickwick. Image, in The Real Dickens Land (1904). Kent Arch. Soc. 2014.

0244 — ROCHESTER. 'Rochester, Stroud and Chatham' J.M.W. Turner, Turner's England and Wales, 1838. The road leading to Gad's Hill, Dickens' home. He commented that it was difficult to see where Rochester ended and Stroud began.

0246 — ROCHESTER. Strood Hill, John Falstaff Inn, W. Fearnside, eng. W Henshall,. History of London, Topgraphy, 1849, The London-Chatham Coach heading down to Rochester in front of Gad's Hill Place, where Dickens moved in 1856. Dickens' last residence.

0247 — ROCHESTER. memorial to Richard Watts, details from glass lside (1904), H. & C. Ward, The Real Dickens Land. Kent Arch. Soc. Collections 2014.

0248 — ROCHESTER.' Every little incident, and even slight words and looks of those old days- came fresh back before him..' Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, chap. 33.

0001 — ROCHESTER Kent Archaaeological Society

0002 — ROCHESTER , Cathedral precincts and gatehouse. Setting in Dickens ' novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood ( unfinished ). Drawing by William Hull ,unfinished after his death.

0005 — ROCHESTER CASTLE, C. 1899, Catherine Ward, glass slide. '..fine place..glorious pile..frowing walls..tottering arches..' Dickens Pickwick Papers. C.Ward, Real Dickens Land, Black, 1904. Kent Archaeological Society, 2014.

0009 — ROCHESTER CASTLE, William Stukeley, 1723. Itinerarium Curiosum. Dickens explored the castle with friends, and provides vivid descriptions of the castle in Great Expectations.

0011 — ROCHESTER CASTLE,c 1899, glass negative Catherine Ward, 'Centuries have so defaced the walls..' Dickens, Seven Poor Travellers, ( 1898 ) C. Ward Real Dickens Land, 1904. Kent Archaeological Society ,2014.

0012 — ROCHESTER CATHEDRAL, The Close. 'Deputy' who fights with Stoney Durdles ' Widdy widdy wen, Ike-chez-'im out-our-ter-ten..' who ' gets a penny to pelt him home.' Dickens Boys, K. Sweetser, 1904.

0015 — ROCHESTER CATHEDRAL. T.& W. Byrne, 1786. Antiquities of Great Britiain. View from the castle which Dickens explored with friends.

0018 — ROCHESTER, ' Ah,fine place..glorious pile,frowning walls,tottering arches,dark nooks, crumbling staircases, Old cathedral too, earthy smell, pilgrims feet woe away the old steps..Dickens, Pickwick Papers,1837, Alfred Jingle's observations.

0019 — ROCHESTER, 'A view of Rochester from Chatham' Dadsun. John Langton, Dickens Youth.. 1888. The moonlight shining over Rochester described in David Copperfield.

0021 — ROCHESTER, 'The Empty Chair' map of Dickens' locations, Chatham Dockyard, Dickens. (2)

0022 — ROCHESTER, . Robert Langton, Childhood and Youth of Dickens, 1888. ' ..the melancholoy glory of that track upon the sea, away into the world of dreams.' David Copperfield,chap. 13.

0023 — ROCHESTER, BULL HOTEL. 'Dr. Slammer's Defiance of Jingle.' Drawing for 'Pickwick Papers' R.Seymour. The scene resembles the staircase at the Bull. Dickens and his Illustrators, F. Kitton, 1890.

0026 — ROCHESTER, Bull Hotel. Detail of image, from The Real Dickens Land, Catharine Ward ( 1904). '..the musicians were securely confined in an elevated den..'Pickwick.

0028 — ROCHESTER, Bull Inn ( coffee room) 'Great pleasure.. boiled fish and mushrooms.. 'Pickwick. Catharine Ward's slide collection (1904) , Kent Archaeological Society 2014.

0030 — ROCHESTER, Bull Inn, c 1899. Glass plate negative, C. Ward. ' A long covered room,with crimson -covered benches, and wax candles in glass chandeliers..'Pickwick. The Real Dickens 'Land, 1904. K.A. Soc.

0032 — ROCHESTER, Bull Inn, kitchen. H.& C. Ward, The Real Dickens Land, Black, 1904.

0035 — ROCHESTER, Bull and George, High Street,1980. Kent Archaeological Society. .

0036 — ROCHESTER, Cartographer R.Sale,1816. Rochester was a stage set for Charles Dickens, for Pickwick Papers, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. He lived close by at Gad's Hill. (2)

0038 — ROCHESTER, Castle. F. Grosse, Antiquities, 1731,

0040 — ROCHESTER, Cathedral and Castle on the Medway. Dickens spent his childhood in Rochester , a setting for young Pip's adventures in Great Expectations. Charles Dickens and Rochester, R. Langton, 1880.

0042 — ROCHESTER, Cathedral, Head Verger, Mr. Miles, 1900. The verger in The Mystery of Edwin Drood appears as Mr. Tope. Image, H.& C. Ward, 1904. Kent Arch. Soc. Collection, 2014.

0044 — ROCHESTER, Charles Dickens and Rochester, Robert Langton, 1880. Paper , Manchester Literary Club,1880.

0046 — ROCHESTER, Coach Yard, negative C. Ward, K.A Soc. The Real Dickens' Land, H. Snowden, C. Ward, 1904.

0048 — ROCHESTER, Dickens' Rochester. Map, David Perdue C.

0050 — ROCHESTER, Eastgate House, F.G. Kitton.

0052 — ROCHESTER, Eastgate House, The Nun's House in The Mystery of Edwin Drood. 'In the midst of Cloisterham stands the Nun's House.' H. & C. Ward, The Real Dickens Land, Black, 1904.

0054 — ROCHESTER, Eastgate House, garden. 'Under the Trees . ' In Dickens' novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood (chap. 3) Edwin declare his forbidden passion for Rosa

0056 — ROCHESTER, Eastgate House. F.L.Delacous, c. 1760. The house (now a museum) appears in Dickens ' Pickwick Papers as Westgate, and in The Mystery of Edwin Drood as The Nuns' House.

0058 — ROCHESTER, Eastgate. The town where Dickens grew up. His novels set here include The Mystery of Edwin Drood , Pickwick Papers , and his semi-autobiographical Great Expectations. R. Langton, Dickens and Rochester 1880.

0059 — ROCHESTER, Gad's Hill Place, Dickens 'Land , J. Nicklen, Blackie, 1911. '...but do let us stop at the top of the hill , and look at the house there, if you please.' Dickens.

0063 — ROCHESTER, Gads Hill Place. Chettleburgh. In the steps of Charles Dickens, William Addison, 1955.

0065 — ROCHESTER, Guildhall, c. 1904. H.& C. Ward, The Real Dickens Land, Black, 1904. 'The Hall was a queer place,I thought, with higher pews in it than a church..' Great Expectations.

0068 — ROCHESTER, High Street, The Six Poor Travellers.

0069 — ROCHESTER, Jasper's Gatehouse. Sketch E. Hazlehurst, Dickens 'Land , J. Nicklin ,1911. This gate sketched by Luke Fildes titled ' Durldes Cautioning Sapsea' , Mr. Jasper's Gatehouse probably a composite including Priors and Deanery Gate.

0072 — ROCHESTER, John Hopkins, Rochester Cathedral Organist. Rochester Cathedral Colletions, William Telfer, Cathedral Annual report 1967.

0074 — ROCHESTER, John Jasper's Gateway ( from the cathedral), F.G. Kitton, F.G. Kitton, The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

0077 — ROCHESTER, R.Sale 1816. Dickens ' Rochester. Places mentioned in Dickens ' Great Expectations shown - The Bull Inn, The Cathedral, Watts Almshouses, and The Marshes. (2)

0079 — ROCHESTER, Restoration House, Crow Lane. The Satis House in Dickens' Great Expetations. The Real Dickens Land, H.& C. Ward 1904. Damaged glass slide. Kent Arch. Soc, 2014.

0081 — ROCHESTER, Restoration House. In Dickens ' novel Great Expectations this house appears as Satis House. Charles Dickens and Rochester, Robert Langton, 1880.

0082 — ROCHESTER, Schnebbelie, eng. Wolnoth, Hughson's London, 1806. Dickens' last home at Gads Hill , over the bridge , up the hill on Watling Street. Great Expectations ( 1860-1 ) early chapters set in Rochester and surrounding country.

0084 — ROCHESTER, Six Poor Travellers, 16thC charity house. The subject of Dickens' Seven Poor Travellers, Dickens ( the seventh traveller) narrating the Christmas story.

0085 — ROCHESTER, Six Poor Travellers, sleeping room. Dickens narrated the Christmas story 'Seven Poor Travellers' , as the seventh traveller.

0087 — ROCHESTER, Star Hill, Theatre Royal. Young Dickens was often taken to productions at the theatre. Not altered in 1888. John Langdon, The Childhood and Youth of Charles Dickens, 1888.

0089 — ROCHESTER, The Bull Hotel. ' Do you remain here. Sir..Not I, but you'd better - good house, nice beds.' Pickwick. Glass slide, image in The Real Dickens ( 1904), Catharine Ward. Kent Arch. Soc. Collections, 2014.

0091 — ROCHESTER, The Vines ,and Restoration House. Setting in Dickens' novel Great Expectations. Robert Langton, Charles Dickens and Rochester, 1880.

0092 — ROCHESTER, The Vines, and Restoration House. Postcard. The Vines appears as The Monk's Vineyard in Dickens 'Mystery of Edwin Drood' Here ,sitting under the Seven Sisters elm trees Edwin Drood breaks his engagement with Rosa.

0094 — ROCHESTER, The setting for Chalres Dicks, Pickwick Papres. The originla cover issued in 1836.

0096 — ROCHESTER, Theatre Royal ( gone ). Lavishly decorated, in 20th c left roofless, many pieces such as decorative tiles stolen. Dickens performed Misnar , a tragedy, in 1821.

0098 — ROCHESTER, Theatre Royal (gone ) ,although Dickens ' perfomed one of his first tragedies here in 1821, no attempt was made to restore the theatre, left roofless for many years and vandalised. Robert Langton, Childhood of Dickens... 1888.

0099 — ROCHESTER, Theatre Royal ,tile decoration in former theatre, where Dickens performed Misnar - The Sultan of India, in 1821.

0102 — ROCHESTER, Watt's Charity, Six Poor Travellers, washing room. The Real Dickens' Land, H.& C. Ward, Blacks, 1904.

0104 — ROCHESTER, Watt's Charity, The Six Poor Travellers. Image, H.& C. Ward (1904) (wrong caption). The real Dickens Land, Black 1904.

0106 — ROCHESTER, Watt's Charity, supper room. H. & C. Ward, The Real Dickens Land, Black, 1904. Kent Archaeological Society, c. 2014.

0108 — ROCHESTER, Watt's charity, dormitory landing. The Real Dickens Land, H. & C. Ward, Black, 1904. c. Kent Archaeological Society Collections, 2014.

0109 — ROCHESTER, William Miles, Sexton 1847-1900. Canon William Telfer, Rochester Cathedral Annual report,1967. Mystery of Edwin Drood.

0113 — ROCHESTER, model for Dickens ' Uncle Pumblechook's Store in Great Expectations ,High Street. Photo. M. MacKenzie, Dickens' Fellowship.

0115 — ROCHESTER, view from Finsbury. Kershaw & Son. c 1850. Dickens' would have recongnised this scene.

0117 — ROCHESTER,Bull Inn. Staricase to ballroom. 'Devil of a mess on the staircase..'Pickwick. Image, in The Real Dickens Land (1904). Kent Arch. Soc. 2014.

0119 — ROCHESTER. 'Rochester, Stroud and Chatham' J.M.W. Turner, Turner's England and Wales, 1838. The road leading to Gad's Hill, Dickens' home. He commented that it was difficult to see where Rochester ended and Stroud began.

0121 — ROCHESTER. Strood Hill, John Falstaff Inn, W. Fearnside, eng. W Henshall,. History of London, Topgraphy, 1849, The London-Chatham Coach heading down to Rochester in front of Gad's Hill Place, where Dickens moved in 1856. Dickens' last residence.

0122 — ROCHESTER. memorial to Richard Watts, details from glass lside (1904), H. & C. Ward, The Real Dickens Land. Kent Arch. Soc. Collections 2014.

0123 — ROCHESTER.' Every little incident, and even slight words and looks of those old days- came fresh back before him..' Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, chap. 33.

0126 — ROCHESTER Kent Archaaeological Society

0128 — ROCHESTER ,High Street, old postcard c 1900. College Gate.

0130 — ROCHESTER CASTLE, C. 1899, Catherine Ward, glass slide. '..fine place..glorious pile..frowing walls..tottering arches..' Dickens Pickwick Papers. C.Ward, Real Dickens Land, Black, 1904. Kent Archaeological Society, 2014.

0134 — ROCHESTER CASTLE, William Stukeley, 1723. Itinerarium Curiosum. Dickens explored the castle with friends, and provides vivid descriptions of the castle in Great Expectations.

0136 — ROCHESTER CASTLE,c 1899, glass negative Catherine Ward, 'Centuries have so defaced the walls..' Dickens, Seven Poor Travellers, ( 1898 ) C. Ward Real Dickens Land, 1904. Kent Archaeological Society ,2014.

0137 — ROCHESTER CATHEDRAL, The Close. 'Deputy' who fights with Stoney Durdles ' Widdy widdy wen, Ike-chez-'im out-our-ter-ten..' who ' gets a penny to pelt him home.' Dickens Boys, K. Sweetser, 1904.

0140 — ROCHESTER CATHEDRAL. T.& W. Byrne, 1786. Antiquities of Great Britiain. View from the castle which Dickens explored with friends.

0143 — ROCHESTER, ' Ah,fine place..glorious pile,frowning walls,tottering arches,dark nooks, crumbling staircases, Old cathedral too, earthy smell, pilgrims feet woe away the old steps..Dickens, Pickwick Papers,1837, Alfred Jingle's observations.

0144 — ROCHESTER, 'A view of Rochester from Chatham' Dadsun. John Langton, Dickens Youth.. 1888. The moonlight shining over Rochester described in David Copperfield.

0146 — ROCHESTER, 'The Empty Chair' map of Dickens' locations, Chatham Dockyard, Dickens. (2)

0147 — ROCHESTER, . Robert Langton, Childhood and Youth of Dickens, 1888. ' ..the melancholoy glory of that track upon the sea, away into the world of dreams.' David Copperfield,chap. 13.

0148 — ROCHESTER, BULL HOTEL. 'Dr. Slammer's Defiance of Jingle.' Drawing for 'Pickwick Papers' R.Seymour. The scene resembles the staircase at the Bull. Dickens and his Illustrators, F. Kitton, 1890.

0151 — ROCHESTER, Bull Hotel. Detail of image, from The Real Dickens Land, Catharine Ward ( 1904). '..the musicians were securely confined in an elevated den..'Pickwick.

0153 — ROCHESTER, Bull Inn ( coffee room) 'Great pleasure.. boiled fish and mushrooms.. 'Pickwick. Catharine Ward's slide collection (1904) , Kent Archaeological Society 2014.

0155 — ROCHESTER, Bull Inn, c 1899. Glass plate negative, C. Ward. ' A long covered room,with crimson -covered benches, and wax candles in glass chandeliers..'Pickwick. The Real Dickens 'Land, 1904. K.A. Soc.

0157 — ROCHESTER, Bull Inn, kitchen. H.& C. Ward, The Real Dickens Land, Black, 1904.

0160 — ROCHESTER, Bull and George, High Street,1980. Kent Archaeological Society. .

0161 — ROCHESTER, Cartographer R.Sale,1816. Rochester was a stage set for Charles Dickens, for Pickwick Papers, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. He lived close by at Gad's Hill. (2)

0163 — ROCHESTER, Castle. F. Grosse, Antiquities, 1731,

0165 — ROCHESTER, Cathedral and Castle on the Medway. Dickens spent his childhood in Rochester , a setting for young Pip's adventures in Great Expectations. Charles Dickens and Rochester, R. Langton, 1880.

0167 — ROCHESTER, Cathedral, Head Verger, Mr. Miles, 1900. The verger in The Mystery of Edwin Drood appears as Mr. Tope. Image, H.& C. Ward, 1904. Kent Arch. Soc. Collection, 2014.

0169 — ROCHESTER, Charles Dickens and Rochester, Robert Langton, 1880. Paper , Manchester Literary Club,1880.

0171 — ROCHESTER, Coach Yard, negative C. Ward, K.A Soc. The Real Dickens' Land, H. Snowden, C. Ward, 1904.

0173 — ROCHESTER, Dickens' Rochester. Map, David Perdue C.

0175 — ROCHESTER, Eastgate House, F.G. Kitton.

0177 — ROCHESTER, Eastgate House, The Nun's House in The Mystery of Edwin Drood. 'In the midst of Cloisterham stands the Nun's House.' H. & C. Ward, The Real Dickens Land, Black, 1904.

0179 — ROCHESTER, Eastgate House, garden. 'Under the Trees . ' In Dickens' novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood (chap. 3) Edwin declare his forbidden passion for Rosa

0181 — ROCHESTER, Eastgate House. F.L.Delacous, c. 1760. The house (now a museum) appears in Dickens ' Pickwick Papers as Westgate, and in The Mystery of Edwin Drood as The Nuns' House.

0183 — ROCHESTER, Eastgate. The town where Dickens grew up. His novels set here include The Mystery of Edwin Drood , Pickwick Papers , and his semi-autobiographical Great Expectations. R. Langton, Dickens and Rochester 1880.

0184 — ROCHESTER, Gad's Hill Place, Dickens 'Land , J. Nicklen, Blackie, 1911. '...but do let us stop at the top of the hill , and look at the house there, if you please.' Dickens.

0188 — ROCHESTER, Gads Hill Place. Chettleburgh. In the steps of Charles Dickens, William Addison, 1955.

0190 — ROCHESTER, Guildhall, c. 1904. H.& C. Ward, The Real Dickens Land, Black, 1904. 'The Hall was a queer place,I thought, with higher pews in it than a church..' Great Expectations.

0193 — ROCHESTER, High Street, The Six Poor Travellers.

0194 — ROCHESTER, Jasper's Gatehouse. Sketch E. Hazlehurst, Dickens 'Land , J. Nicklin ,1911. This gate sketched by Luke Fildes titled ' Durldes Cautioning Sapsea' , Mr. Jasper's Gatehouse probably a composite including Priors and Deanery Gate.

0197 — ROCHESTER, John Hopkins, Rochester Cathedral Organist. Rochester Cathedral Colletions, William Telfer, Cathedral Annual report 1967.

0200 — ROCHESTER, Minor Canon Row, c. 1880. Setting in Dickens ' Edwin Drood and The Seven Poor Travellers. Charles Dickens and Rochester, Robert Langton, 1880.

0201 — ROCHESTER, Minor Canon Row. Setting in Dickens The Mystery of Edwin Drood. H. & C. Ward, The Real Dickens Land, Black, 1904.

0203 — ROCHESTER, R.Sale 1816. Dickens ' Rochester. Places mentioned in Dickens ' Great Expectations shown - The Bull Inn, The Cathedral, Watts Almshouses, and The Marshes.

0205 — ROCHESTER, Restoration House. Dickens ' Satis House ' where Dickens ' bitter Miss Havisham taught Estella the cruel lessons. Pepys met the silly shopkeeper in the Cherry Garden.

0208 — ROCHESTER, Six Poor Travellers, 16th charity house. 'I found it to be a clean white house of a staid and venerable air..' Dickens , 'The Seven Poor Travellers' 1854.

0211 — ROCHESTER, St. Bartholemew's Hospital, St. Barts founded in 1078, for the care of poor and lepers, closed in 2016. Medway Council. (2)

0213 — ROCHESTER, The Bull Hotel, J. Chettleburgh, In The Footsteps of Charles Dickens, William Addison, Rich and Cowan, 1955.

0215 — ROCHESTER, The Peace Coach crossing Rocheter Bridge, M.Dubourg, 1815. The new stone bridge that The Pickwickians would have used ( 1827-28).

0218 — ROCHESTER, The childhood and youth of C Dickens, Robert Langton, 1880. Dickens moved to Rochester aged four with his father

0220 — ROCHESTER, Theatre Royal ( gone ). Charles Dickens performed a tragedy called Misnar- The Sultan of India , in 1821. The detail ,probably stolen when the vacant building was vandlaised. libervitae.co.uk.

0222 — ROCHESTER, Theatre Royal ( vandalised, sold ) Charles Dickens first theatrical performances here in 1821, a tragedy called Misnar- The Sultan of India. Renamed Lyceum it closed in 1894.

0225 — ROCHESTER, Watt's Charity, ' The effigy of Master Richard Watts was bursting out of his tomb.' Dickens, Seven Poor Travellers. H.& C. Ward, The Real Dickens Land, Black, 1904. Kent Arch. Soc. 2014.

0226 — ROCHESTER, Watt's Charity, Setting for Dickens' Six Poor Travellers. Charles Dickens and Rochester, Robert Langton, 1880 .

0228 — ROCHESTER, Watt's Charity, Six Poor Travellers. ' Seven Poor Travellers', Reading by Charles Dickens, Christmas, 1854.

0230 — ROCHESTER, Watt's Charity, rear, and upstairs rooms. H. & C. Ward, The Real Dickens Land, Black, 1904.

0232 — ROCHESTER, Watt's Charity. Subject of Dickens ' Seven Poor Travellers.' H. & C. Ward, The Real Dickens Land, Black, 1904.

0235 — ROCHESTER, eng. E. Findon, Great Britain Illustrated, W. Westall, 1832. ' ..beautiful the appearance of every object around,as Mr. Pickwick leaned over the balustrades of Rochester Bridge cotemplating nature..the banks of the Medway ..'

0236 — ROCHESTER, engraving, W. Cooke, Select Views in Great Britain, 1825. Dickens' Dulborough in The Uncommercial Traveller (1860), and the Mudfog in The Mudfog Papers ( 1880).

0237 — ROCHESTER, gatehouse of Cathedral Close. Setting in Dickens' novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Charles Dickens and Rochester, Robert Langton, 1880.

0239 — ROCHESTER, town map on linen, 'survey'd & Plann'd, R. Sale, eng. Neele, 1816. Showing many places that appear in Dickens' novels, Great Expectations and The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

0241 — ROCHESTER,Bull Inn, The Owl Room (coffee room) c 1899 ,Glass slide, C. Ward, published in Real Dickens ' Land,, C. Ward ,1904. Kent Archaeological Society, 2014.

0243 — ROCHESTER,Minor Canon Row. Dickens calls this Minor Canon Corner ,where the Rev. Septimus Crisparkle kept house with the 'china sheperdess' The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

0245 — ROCHESTER. Image from Hogarth's Periginations at Rochester and Elsewhere. Inlcuded p. 8 in Robert Langton's Childhood and youth of Charles Dickens, 1880.

0249 — rochester - dickens map.