Eastgate House, Rochester
Step inside Eastgate House and explore a maze of beautiful rooms and displays telling the stories of those who lives there throughout the centuries.
Charles Dickens' Chalet, Eastgate House, Rochester, Kent, UK [4K]
Eastgate House - Rochester
Surveying works at Eastgate House, prior to roof repairs.
Charles Dickens-related Sites - Rochester, England, United Kingdom
Located about 30 miles ESE of London, Rochester has a long history, with evident of early Celtic and Roman settlement in the area. It is home to the second oldest bishopric in England, and it was formally recognized as a city in 1211.
In 1856, Charles Dickens moved to Gads Hill Place in Highham, Kent, across River Medway from Rochester. Dickens lived there the rest of his life, and he wrote several of his well-known works there. Several buildings in the Rochester area became settings for scenes in his stories and novels.
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E13A2625 - View of High Street at Eastgate
E13A2638 - The Swiss Chalet behind Eastgate House; a gift to Charles Dickens, it was originally assembled across from his house on Gads Hill; it was in the chalet where Dickens did much of his later writing; the Swiss Chalet was relocated behind Eastgate House in Rochester; Eastgate House is home to a Dickens museum; it was featured as Westgate in The Pickwick Papers
E13A2656 - The Six Poor Travellers House on High Street was established as a charity house in the 1500s; it inspired the Charles Dickens story The Seven Poor Travellers
E13A2683 - Guildhall on High Street; built in 1697, its chamber is featured in the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations
E13A2676 - The Princess Hall a.k.a. Corn Exchange was built in 1698 and is worth checking out
E13A2672 - Chertsey's Gate once marked the boundary between Rochester and the Rochester Cathedral; formerly known as Cemetery Gate and now as College Gate, it appeared as Jasper's Gate in the Charles Dickens novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood
E13A2786 - Rochester Cathedral as seen from atop Rochester Castle; the cathedral was built between 1079 and 1238; the Diocese of Rochester dates back to the early 600s, the second oldest bishopric in England
E13A2760 - Rochester Castle dates back to the 11th century; its keep, or tower, dates to the 12th century and is generally regarded as one of the best preserved keeps in the United Kingdom
Eastgate House & Charles Dickens Swiss Chalet
A look around the grounds of Eastgate house that include a pond & gardens, old section of road from Strood, well pump & Charles Dickens Swiss Chalet.
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COMPLETE WALK OF ROCHESTER HIGH STREET DURING DICKENS FESTIVAL MEDWAY KENT ENGLAND
What an amazing day. #Medway is proud of its association with the writer Charles Dickens and the Dickens Festival has celebrated these lasting connections every year since 1978.
The #Rochester area was the inspiration for many of Dickens' greatest works. Indeed, Restoration House in Rochester was Satis House in Great Expectations, where Miss Havisham lived. #charlesdickens #greatexpectations
Charles Dickens spent five of his childhood years in Medway from 1817 to 1822. He was an international legend when he returned for the last 13 years of his life, dying at Gad's Hill in 1870.
During this annual event you will experience old favourites, from our wonderful parades, which are always full of colour and people dressed in fantastic Victorian costumes, to our competitions, street entertainment, displays and readings.
The Dickens Festival's unique combination of music, dance, drama and street theatre has rightly earned it a place in the south-east tourism calender as one of the key events of the summer.
ROCHESTER KENT UK WALKING TOUR (2018) Castle, Cathedral and Town
If you're thinking of a day trip from London, join us on this walking tour through Charles Dickens' home town to see what to do in one day. We pass along the High Street with its unique shops, pubs and the Kent Tourist Information Centre.
Rochester Cathedral dates back to the 7th Century - Rochester Castle to the 12th. And the iron bridge that spans the River Medway is the latest in a long line of bridges that date back to Emperor Claudius.
Sit back or treadmill walk England's historical past in this Charles Dickens walking tour through one of the best British towns.
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Rochester is a classic and historical city in the county of Kent, approximately 26 miles east-south-east of London and 8 miles north of Maidstone, and It's a 45 minutes journey by train from London. Rochester comprises numerous important historic buildings, the most prominent of which are the Guildhall, the Corn Exchange, Restoration House, Eastgate House, as well as Rochester Castle and Rochester Cathedral, there is also the old bridge over the Medway river. This beautiful city is a lovely destination for a one day trip.
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Places to see in ( Rochester - UK )
Places to see in ( Rochester - UK )
Rochester is a town and historic city in the unitary authority of Medway in Kent, England. Rochester is at the lowest bridging point of the River Medway about 30 miles from London.
Rochester was for many years a favourite of Charles Dickens, who owned nearby Gads Hill Place, Higham, basing many of his novels on the area. The Diocese of Rochester, the second oldest in England, is centred on Rochester Cathedral and was responsible for the founding of a school, now The King's School in 604 AD, which is recognised as being the second oldest continuously running school in the world.
Rochester Castle, built by Bishop Gundulf of Rochester, has one of the best preserved keeps in either England or France, and during the First Barons' War (1215–1217) in King John's reign, baronial forces captured the castle from Archbishop Stephen Langton and held it against the king, who then besieged it.
Rochester and its neighbours, Chatham and Gillingham, Strood and a number of outlying villages form a single large urban area known as the Medway Towns. These places nowadays make up the Medway Unitary Authority area. It was, until 1998, under the control of Kent County Council and is still part of the ceremonial county of Kent, under the latest Lieutenancies Act.
Rochester lies within the area, known to geologists, as the London Basin. The low-lying Hoo peninsula to the north of the town consists of London Clay, and the alluvium brought down by the two rivers—the Thames and the Medway—whose confluence is in this area. The land rises from the river, and being on the dip slope of the North Downs, this consists of chalk surmounted by the Blackheath Beds of sand and gravel.
Rochester comprises numerous important historic buildings, the most prominent of which are the Guildhall, the Corn Exchange, Restoration House, Eastgate House, as well as Rochester Castle and Rochester Cathedral. Many of the town centre's old buildings date from as early as the 14th century up to the 18th century. The chapel of St Bartholomew's Hospital dates from the ancient priory hospital's foundation in 1078.
A new Huguenot Museum, which includes items from the collections of the French Hospital, was opened in Rochester on 13 May 2015, with support from the Heritage Lottery Fund and individual donations. Since 1980 the city has seen the revival of the historic Rochester Jack-in-the-Green May Day dancing chimney sweeps tradition, which had died out in the early 1900s.
Rochester is on the A2, which crosses the Medway at Rochester Bridge – the route roughly follows the ancient road known as Watling Street. Rochester railway station is on the Chatham Main Line and the North Kent Line. Rochester Airport began in September 1933 when Rochester City Council purchased some land as the site for a municipal airport.
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Restoration House - Did You Know?
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Medway Prison Hulks Tour.
A look at the display about the Medway prison hulks in The Guidhall Museum,Rochester, Kent. The Museum is free and open almost all year.
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The Medway prison hulks
1793 to 1815: prison hulks moored in the Medway
During the reign of Elizabeth I, the sentence of transportation began to be used as the most severe punishment available to the law below the death penalty. This meant that thousands of people were sent over to the American colonies, where cheap labour was constantly in demand. With the end of the American War of Independence in 1776, this stopped and a crisis developed in the English penal system.
It was partly solved by housing many convicted criminals sentenced to hard labour on ageing warships, which could be anchored near the site of work on the banks of the Thames. These were the hulks. During the Napoleonic wars, their numbers grew to accommodate prisoners of war and spread to other rivers and estuaries, making them one of the features of life in the Medway Towns for many years.
The enormous numbers of prisoners of war brought to this country between 1793 and 1815 called into service more than 60 hulks. Some of the most notorious were moored off Chatham, such as the Brunswick, where 460 prisoners were crowded at night into a deck measuring 125 x 40 feet (approximately 38 x 12m) and with a ceiling only 4 feet 10 inches high (approximately 1.5m).
Despite these conditions, some prisoners spent their long days making the most extraordinary decorative objects out of bone, straw and hair. These they sold to local people and visitors and some of their efforts, including spectacular ship models, are on display at the Guildhall Museum today.
After the end of the war, hulks remained on the Medway, housing civilian prisoners. It is a Medway hulk from which Magwitch escapes in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, which is described in the book as lying out a little way from the mud of the shore, like a wicked Noah's ark.
The last of the English prison hulks was destroyed by fire at Woolwich in 1857, on 14 July: Bastille Day.
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6 Poor Travellers' House - Did You Know?
Did you know the connection between the 6 Poor Traveller's building in Rochester, and Charles Dickens's novel The Seven Poor Travellers?