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Charles Dickens blue plaque

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Charles Dickens blue plaque

Charles Dickens · Novelist

Inscription

“Charles Dickens lived in a house on this site 1824-1829 Later to be the home of The David Copperfield Childrens Library 1922-1932”

Details

1812-70

Life dates

9-16 Cranleigh Houses, Cranleigh Street, Somers Town

NW1

Erected 2013

Brook and Cranleigh House Residents Association

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9-16 Cranleigh Houses, Cranleigh Street, Somers Town

NW1

51.533230, -0.134450

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