A literary boat trip: Dickens on the Thames

Festival Pier, Festival Pier, Southbank (opposite the Royal Festival Hall), Southbank, London51.506932 -0.117729
Date:: 5th May 2012 -- 2 PM to 5 PM
Tickets:: £18, from museumoflondon.org.uk
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Here's a treat: the Museum of London will be putting on a special literary tour that takes in the key sites of Charles Dickens' London. But the difference is... it's on a boat!

You will be able to enjoy a leisurely afternoon boating down the Thames in the company of Alex Werner and Tony Williams (co-authors of "Dickens's Victorian London"), who will point out key sites from the author's life -- such as the blacking factory where he worked as a boy and the Limehouse pub in "Our Mutual Friend".

The boat will motor between the Festival Pier (opposite the Royal Festival Hall) and Greenwich.

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