Stella-Maris - Broadstairs - Star of the Sea
Although the pandemic is officially over Covid has not gone away so some events may still get cancelled or curtailed so please make sure you contact the event organisers before making any plans for 2024 especially if travelling from afar!
If you do visit please respect our Town and please leave nothing but footprints in the sand when you depart.
For many years now 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 2024 Festival will run from Friday 14th to Sunday 16th June.
This years Dickens Festival will be the 85th year of running this event.
More information about the annual festival and other events during the year is always available on their
website.
Pictures of the 2017 week can be found
here.
Bleak House is no longer open to the public.