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Dickens Festival
Each year for the past 69 years there has been a celebration of Charles Dickens. The Dickens Festival is held each year in June, during this week it is impossible to walk through Broadstairs without bumping into characters from his novels!
There are several locations in Broadstairs associated with Charles Dickens,
perhaps the best known is Bleak House overlooking the Jetty at Viking Bay.
Charles Dickens stayed in Broadstairs for his summer holidays and wrote much of
David Copperfield in Bleak House. He also based the cottage where Betsey Trotwood
lived on a house at Broadstairs, which is now the
Dickens House Museum
in Victoria Parade.
The 2008 Dickens Festival will be held and will run from Thursday 19th to
Sunday 22nd June.
This is the 71st year the festival has been held. More information will be available on their
website
,or on the
Town Council site.
Pictures of the 2007 week
can be found
here.
Bleak House announcement
Bleak House is sadly no longer a museum but a private house. The museum was supported entirely privately and had no support from the local council or any national body, and I am aware that it had become increasingly difficult for it to continue in the face of mounting costs and falling visitor numbers.
The good news is that the new owners still try to open the property during the annual Dickens Festival and Folk Week if the situation permits.
