2020 sees the 150th anniversary of Charles Dickens death and Footprints of London are commemorating this with a series of virtual tours of the places he knew. The virtual tour will involve a one hour Zoom session where your guide will show slides and talk to accompany them, and you will be able to ask questions. both during and at the end of the tour.

Rochester is one of South East Englands most attractive towns and a place that Charles Dickens knew intimately, having grown up in neighbouring Chatham and owning a house in nearby Higham at the end of his life.

On this Virtual Tour, your guide Rob Smith will show you pictures of some of the many buildings from Rochester that appear in Dickens work, and also the writing hut that he wrote in. Rob will also read excerpts from the work in the that were inspired by the buildings of Rochester, which will include Pickwick Papers, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, The Uncommercial Traveller and Great Expectations