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...
At this date the Chief of Staff was Bramwell Booth.
72 Farm Lane This building was constructed over market gardens in 1889 as two-storey stabling for the London Road Car Company, operators ...
The Listing text says the statue and the relief are of copper, not the more usual bronze. The front of the plinth below the seated lady s...
The 1969 film, A Touch of Love, shows a drinking fountain of this style in a scene at about 1hr 40mins. It’s a close-up and there’s no cl...
The plot consists of 36 graves acquired by the London Fire Brigade Widows and Orphans Fund (founded in1882 by Massey Shaw, who, probably ...
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