Hints and tips:
...Either way, a sign above the alley invites the traveller to “rest and refresh yrself” in an “ancient tavern” enjoyed by luminaries such as Charles Dickens and Samuel Butler....
...It opened as a pub in 1998 and is run by Fuller’s as one of its “Ale & Pie Houses”....
...Today, the beer may be colder, craftier and, on average, more than £5 a pint, though it’s still not hard to imagine Charles Dickens or Samuel Pepys drinking in one of the historic dockside pubs that stand...
...A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens (updated) The brightness of the shops, where holly sprigs and berries crackled in the lamp heat of the windows, made pale faces ruddy as they passed....
...When you thought of pawnbrokers, you thought of Hogarth and Dickens. I don’t think there’s a stigma now.” High-end pawnbroking is booming....
...Mark Fuller was having trouble opening his five-star Sanctum Hotel in the last episode of Rock’n’Roll Hotel (Friday BBC1)....
...The pudding Plum pudding was a seasonal fixture long before Dickens' A Christmas Carol....
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