Dickens' Dockyard Tours
‘Dickens’ Dockyard’ Tours provide an insight into why this literary giant was so familiar with the dockyard and explain why he considered it a “place of wonderment”.
In 1817, a young Charles Dickens left London with his family and after a brief spell in Sheerness settled in Chatham, where his father John Dickens had found work in the dockyard as a clerk in the Navy Pay Office.
Our tours focus on the relationship between Dickens and the beloved Dockyard he visited as a child and later as an adult.
We explore the experiences he had at Chatham Dockyard and how these later appeared in his works, including visits to the John Dickens place of work and extracts from the book 'The Uncommercial Traveller'.
Dickens' Dockyard Tours take place on Sunday afternoons at 2.30pm
( Starting from 19th February )
Adults £3.50, children £1.00
Must hold a valid ticket for The Historic Dockyard Chatham