The heroine of Dickens' novel Little Dorrit was one resident who was not a prisoner.
SE1, Borough High Street, Angel Alley
We've put the pin for these 6 plaques at the entrance to the alleyway but they are actually laid into the ground, distributed along the alley all the way to Tennis Street. We've numbered them west to east. In our picture you can see the old wall, the steel plaque and the first of the stone plaques.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Marshalsea 3 - stone - Little Dorrit
A novel by Charles Dickens first published in serial form 1855 and 1857. The...
Born, son of Elizabeth and John Dickens, at No.1 Mile End Terrace, Landport, ...
Originally built to hold prisoners being tried by the Marshalsea Court an...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Marshalsea 3 - stone - Little Dorrit
The plaque refers to 'wall mounted artworks' but we did not see any on our vi...
This is our first push-me-pull-you plaque. It is in Angel Alley at the gates...
John Dickens, the father of Charles Dickens, was imprisoned here for debt fro...
English Heritage A.W. Hofmann, 1818 - 1892, professor of chemistry, lived here.
The building in the background is 8 Canada Square, HSBC's London head office, and the building on which the 3 construction workers lost t...
Sebright House This block was built in 1948 and was named after William Seabright, Town Clerk of London (1541 - 1620), who devoted much c...
Site of the 13th century Hospital of St Anthony and of the French Protestant Church, demolished 1840. The Corporation of the City of London
According to Time Magazine at the time this foundation stone was laid, summer of 1933, the Princess Royal was suffering "a frantic debili...
