A DICKEN'S LANDMARK

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11752, 2 January 1918, Page 3

A DICKEN'S LANDMARK

Another <)■; the rapi'd'y dwindl'ng l):d'rns' landmarks in London h ■(.loomed to demolition, at an early

(Sat ol . Among tho few ouli bouses joyerhanging tlio river iiu tho neighbourhood, of Limehouso Holi> is that formerly occupied by the Waters family ,\vho Uv'' generations canned on the InHuicbs of Irghlormen. Tho 1 win so is reached from tho si i ore ai> low water by nicvins of a flight of woixlen stairs } and from the river '.it prosoiiits a pict/urcsquo appearance. Mi- R'iohard Water**, who di'ed not long, ago, ust'.l to ji!X"ount witjhgroat interest the visits which Chnries Dickens paid to h'n house when <*n gaged in writing "Our Mutuail Friend." In order to .'•ocuro' the truo "loeii, colotu" for h)'s riverside scones, *he novelist spent many days in tlv k 1 it—tb bofr-windnwod coo in overlooking tlit'-j Thame*'. •; '• ( ' . A fof doors &, below 'is tibo (J rapes Inn, which is .vsujjpoM-jid to Inyo suggested fa l/eknis'tiie:'"Six Jolly Fel-

lowship: Por*rs" ! Vvl ,7 th,ei stdfy. The - JO "' V ' proper).* lias been aeepi, rek.l by tho Stepney Ihirotu^'Council, but! owing to the w.'if, tlio the. "housf> b''ealeers".vi'.jiv.f* boon stnyod.''for the present, though the ultimate fa to of this bit f*f old riverside scenery with its interesting Dickens associations, is muloilbU.'di'y seaiod. f !