PICKWICK’S JOURNEY

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 113, 16 May 1927, Page 9

PICKWICK’S JOURNEY

INTERESTING REVIVAL

(United Press Association.—Copyright.) LONDON, 13th May. 10-day, exactly a century since the original famous journey, Pickwick, onodgrass, Winkle, and the remainder of their friends boarded a coach at the Golden Cross Hotel, in the Strand, and drove off to Rochester attired exactly as the originals. The horn blew and tne four horses clattered and lunged, while the crqwd cheered during the progress through Whitehall to Westminster Bridge, and thence through Southwark, where, at the junction of the New and Old Kent -roads, the Mayor, in his robes and chains, greeted them. Everybody laughed, cheered, and waved. Then they journeyed through Lltham into the countryside, where sweet-smelling flowers and hedges were passed. The horses were changed, in Blendon, where the party jerked into the present by an announcement ‘/after hours,” after which they passed on their merry, rollicking way to Rochester, where the Mayor of the Corporation, supported by thousands, cheered them. A tankard of ale was served at the Bull Hotel, after which they had luncheon. The Pickwickians, who are members of the Dickens Fellowship at London and Rochester, attended service at the Cathedral.