Today is the bi-centennial of Charles Dickens birth. London is recognising the occasion with lots of readings of his works. There is an exhibition of Dicken's London at the Museum of London (runs until June 10).The picture today is the courtyard of the Prudential Building in Holborn. In Dicken's day this was the site of Furnival Inn, where Dickens lived for a brief time. It was during his time here that he wrote the Pickwick papers (1836), his first novel that set him on his journey to fame.
In the left hand corner a small gabled grotto houses a bust of Dickens by Percy Fitzgerald.
