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Tavistock House was demolished in 1901, and its former location is covered today by the headquarters of the British Medical Association in Tavistock Square. A blue plaque commemorates Charles Dickens and Tavistock House.
The Charles Dickens Museum is an author's house museum at 48 Doughty Street in King's Cross, in the London Borough of Camden. It occupies a typical Georgian terraced house which was Charles Dickens's home from 25 March 1837 (a year after his marriage) to December 1839.
Sep 23, 2011 · Dickens had inhabited multiple houses during his lifetime and as the writer of the Daily Telegraph report on the opening of the museum noted, ‘the house, to be quite frank, is not so large or distinguished-looking as 1 Devonshire Terrace still is, or as Tavistock House (now demolished), in Tavistock Square, once was’. 41 In his own ...
- Catherine Malcolmson
- (University of Leicester)
- 2011
Dissociated from the legal system in the early nineteenth century, the medieval building was demolished in 1818; then a decade later a block of apartments opened on the site with an impressive neoclassical facade designed by the architect Thomas Hosmer Shepherd in 1828.
Feb 8, 2014 · Dickens rented rooms at the Inn between 1834 and 1837, during which time he worked as a political journalist and started to write The Pickwick Papers. Unfortunately, the Inn was demolished in 1897, with Holborn Bars being built on the site soon afterwards. Holborn Bars, 138-142 Holborn, EC1N 2NQ.
In 1902 the newly-formed Dickens Fellowship acquired No. 48 Doughty Street as its headquarters. Threatened with demolition in 1923, in 1925 under a separate trust it became the Dickens House Museum, as advertised in the 1929 issues of the Dickensian. Left to right: (a) Advertisement for the Dickens House Museum, London. (b) . [Click on these ...
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This 1893 map shows the house on the west side of Marylebone High Street, half-way between Marylebone Road and Marylebone Gardens, apparently with a large garden stretching to Marylebone Road. Demolished late 1950s.
