Dickens's London by Clark Peter;Wagenbach Klaus;Osers Ewald;Lewis Peter;

Author:Clark, Peter;Wagenbach, Klaus;Osers, Ewald;Lewis, Peter;
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781907973413
Publisher: Haus Publishing
Published: 2014-11-02T00:00:00+00:00

WALK FOUR

From Bermondsey to Holborn Circus

The walk starts in Bermondsey and takes us to the City of London. Then, after another optional underground journey we move to Smithfield and Clerkenwell and to parts of London particularly associated with Oliver Twist.

BERMONDSEY has undergone several transformations since the 1830s. Slum clearances in the nineteenth century, extensive improvements during the twentieth century, and severe bomb damage during the Second World War have made it hard to trace the location of Jacob’s Island where Bill Sikes in Oliver Twist made his last stand. He tried to lower himself from a building known as Metcalf Yard into a ditch with a rope attached to a chimney. But he lost his grip and hanged himself by the rope.

Near to that part of the Thames ... where the buildings on the banks are dirtiest, and the vessels on the river blackest, with the dust of colliers and the smoke of close-built, low-roofed houses. In such a neighbourhood, beyond Dockhead, in the borough of Southwark, stands Jacob’s Island, surrounded by a muddy ditch, six or eight feet deep, and fifty or twenty wide when the tide is in, once called Mill Pond, but known in the days of this story as Folly Ditch.

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