Frontispiece: Young Dickens. Engraving by Robert Graves from the
‘Nickleby’ portrait by Daniel Maclise, 1839 (courtesy of Dan
Calinescu, Boz & Friends Fine & Rare Books, Toronto)
1. The defunct Middlesex Hospital Outpatients’ Department (old Strand Union Workhouse). Photo by Gerhard Lang, 2011 (courtesy of Gerhard Lang)
2. Chandos Street from Bedford Street, Covent Garden. Watercolour by T. C. Dibdin c.1851 (courtesy of Westminster Archives)
3. Church Lane, a back alley leading west from Chandos Street towards St Martin’s-in-the-Fields. Watercolour by George Scharf, 1828 (courtesy of British Museum Prints and Drawings)
4. Potter’s Map of Marylebone, 1832, showing Norfolk Street (courtesy of Westminster Archives)
5. Roque’s Map of London c.1725, showing ‘The Green Lane’ (where Cleveland Street now runs) (courtesy of Westminster Archives)
6. The St Pancras Parish marker, fixed on 49 Tottenham Street, the house at the back of 10 Norfolk Street. Photo by Ruth Richardson, 2011
7. Portland Place, Marylebone, looking north towards the fields which became Regent’s Park. Aquatint after a watercolour by T. H. Shepherd, 1815 (courtesy of Westminster Archives)
8. View north across devastated site of the Middlesex Hospital. Photo by Ruth Richardson, 2011 61
9. The dignified central and eastern wings of the Middlesex Hospital (Norfolk Street forming the Hospital’s eastern flank). From John Tallis, Street Views of London, 1830 (courtesy of Jarndyce Antiquarian Books)
10. View northwards up Norfolk Street (now Cleveland Street) in 2011. Photo by Ruth Richardson
11. A Cleveland Street coffee-shop. Sketch by George Sharf, 1820s (courtesy of British Museum Prints and Drawings)
12. A plan of the Workhouse and its consecrated burial ground, from measurements taken at the time of consecration in 1790, redrawn from the consecration records of the Church of England (held at London Metropolitan Archives)
13. Dickens’s old home and the adjacent Georgian shops, looking south towards Charles Street (now Mortimer Street). Photo by Ruth Richardson, 2011
14. The corner house at 22 Cleveland Street (10 Norfolk Street). Photo by Ruth Richardson, 2011
15. Horwood’s Map of London, 1799, showing the ‘H’ block of the Middlesex Hospital (courtesy of Westminster Archives)
16. Butter-paper from the shop of John Wrigley, Grocer (courtesy of the John Johnson Collection, Bodleian Library)
17. ‘What a treat’ and ‘I wish that you may get it’: double cartoon of shop interiors of a cheesemonger and an oilman/tallow chandler. Etching by Henry Heath, published by Gans, 1829 (courtesy of British Museum Prints and Drawings)
18. The Schedule, or inventory, of Mr Dodd’s fixtures and fittings at No. 10 Norfolk Street, 1804 (courtesy of Westminster Archives)
19. Inside No. 10 Norfolk Street: 1. Original hand-blown Georgian glass. Photo by Ruth Richardson, 2011
20. Inside No. 10 Norfolk Street: 2. The staircase down to the basement. Photo by Ruth Richardson, 2011
21. Basement kitchen in Francis Street, Tottenham Court Road. Watercolour by George Scharf, 1816 (courtesy of British Museum Prints and Drawings)
22. Inside No. 10 Norfolk Street: 3. Original handrail on staircase leading up from the kitchens. Photo by Ruth Richardson, 2011
23. Close-up of Tallis’s view of Norfolk Street (courtesy of Jarndyce Antiquarian Books)
24. Gog & Magog, City of London Guildhall, by James Asperne, 1810 (courtesy of British Museum Prints and Drawings)
25. Hungerford Stairs seen from the River. Lithograph by G. Harley and D. Dighton, published by Rowney of Rathbone Place, Marylebone, 1822 (courtesy of Westminster Archives)
26. Title page and shorthand versions of the opening verses of Genesis, and the Lord’s Prayer, from Thomas Gurney’s Brachygraphy. Published by Butterworth, 1825 (courtesy of Dan Calinescu, Boz & Friends Fine & Rare Books, Toronto)
27. Young Dickens c.1830. Stipple engraving from miniature painting by Janet Barrow, Dickens’s aunt (courtesy Dan Calinescu, Boz & Friends Fine & Rare Books, Toronto)
28. Charles Dickens’s calling card, c.1830 (courtesy of Dan Calinescu, Boz and Friends Fine & Rare Books, Toronto)
29. The murderers of the poor Italian Boy, frontispiece from The Italian Boy chapbook published by Jack Fairburn, London, 1831 (courtesy of the British Library Rare Books Department, Dexter Collection)
30. Early Coaches. Etching by George Cruikshank from Sketches by Boz, 1836 (courtesy of Dan Calinescu, Boz & Friends Fine & Rare Books, Toronto)
31. The Coroner’s Jury, frontispiece to ‘Extreme Cruelty’, published by Jack Fairburn, London, 1829, on the Esther Hibner case (courtesy of Bishopsgate Institute)
32. Covent Garden Market. Watercolour by George Scharf, 1825 (courtesy of British Museum Prints and Drawings)
33. Select Vestry Comforts. Etching by Thomas Jones, published by Fores of Piccadilly, 1828 (courtesy of British Museum Prints and Drawings)
34. The Empty Tomb. Etching by George Cruikshank for the first edition of Oliver Twist, 1838 (courtesy of Dan Calinescu, Boz & Friends Fine & Rare Books, Toronto)
35. Heaven and Earth by Robert Seymour, the illustrator of Pickwick Papers, 1830 (courtesy of Jarndyce Antiquarian Books)
36. Old shops at Charing Cross. Sketch by George Scharf, 1830 (courtesy of British Museum Prints and Drawings)
37. A pawnbroker’s shop interior, said to be in Drury Lane. Etching by George Cruikshank for Sketches by Boz, 1836 (courtesy of Oxford University Press)
38. Nineteenth-century pawn ticket. Illustration from ‘My Uncle’ by Henry Wills from Household Words, 1851, reproduced in Wills’s Old Leaves, published by Harper, New York, 1860 (courtesy of Jarndyce Antiquarian Books)
39. Sightlines between the Workhouse and Mr Baxter’s corner (15–16 Norfolk Street) and Dickens’s home (courtesy of Bath Spa University)
40. Pewter button from the Strand Union Workhouse (courtesy of Ian Smith)
41. Louisa Twining. Portrait photograph c.1860 from her Recollections of Life and Work (Ruth Richardson)
42. Dr Joseph Rogers, Poor Law Medical Officer at the Cleveland Street Workhouse in the 1850s and 1860s (courtesy of the Thorold Rogers Collection, Bodleian Library)
43. The Matron at the Central London Sick Asylum (the Cleveland Street Workhouse). Sketch by Charles Chambers Eames, 1883 (courtesy of Mr F. Eames)
44. Middlesex Hospital Annexe. Inter-war photograph of Cleveland Street showing the modernized Workhouse (courtesy of Middlesex Hospital Archives)