Happy 210th birthday to Charles Dickens – made in Portsmouth | Nostalgia
Two hundred and ten years ago today Charles Dickens was born in the house you see below in what is now Old Commerical Road.
To mark the occasion we’ve come up with some of the engravings used to illustrate his work plus a couple of photos from our archive.
A message from the editor, Mark Waldron.
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