Location 1: Rochester High Street / Esplanade
Overlooking the River Medway: Dickens's memory of this place as the exemplar of the not-yet-industrialised age into which he was born.
Location 2: The Guildhall Museum
Into the Guildhall Museum, and its recreation of a hulk, or prison boat. Then on into into the Guildhall's main chamber itself - the epitome of the traditional social order.
Location 3: The Corn Exchange clock
In The Uncommercial Traveller, Dickens wrote how he had once supposed this to be "the finest clock in the world; whereas it now turned out to be as inexpressive, moon-faced, and weak a clock as ever I saw"
Location 4: Six Poor Travellers House
Dickens wrote his short story "The Seven Poor Travellers" about this 16th-century charity house, which still serves as a working almshouse.
Location 5: 150-4 High Street
In Great Expectations, "Mr Pumblechook's premises in the High Street of the market town, were of a peppercorny and farinaceous character, as the premises of a cornchandler and seedsman should be..."
Location 6: Restoration House
The building on which Dickens based Miss Havisham's Satis House, in Great Expectations.
Location 7: Minor Canon Row, Rochester Cathedral
In The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Dickens used Rochester as a character, disguised as Cloisterham.
Location 8: Eastgate House & Swiss Chalet
The Swiss chalet was given to Dickens by a French actor friend. He used it as a writing study, and it was where he wrote his last words.
Location 9: The Royal Theatre
The theatre, now lightly disguised as a Conservative Club and Function Rooms. Dickens's childhood visits to performances here made a big impact on him.
Location 10: Rochester railway station
In Dullborough Town, a thinly disguised portrait of Rochester, Dickens writes about the coming railways and his sense of the dehumanisation that had come with the accelerated mobility of life, of industrialisation.
