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that the Dickens house had originally been No. 2 Ordnance Terrace, indicating that at some stage, the twelve houses had been renumbered from west to east instead of from east to west, the Dickens house at No. 2 becoming No. 11. If this renumbering had happened between 1821 and 1855, the Dickens house is the murder house; if it had happened after the murder in 1855, the murder house is the present-day No. 2. A look through the available Chatham directories was to prove profitable. An 1838 directory lists Mrs E. Newnsham, recorded to have been a neighbour of the Dickenses, as still occupying No. 4 Ordnance Terrace, where she had been living back in 1819. An 1849 directory lists Mrs Bacon as living at No. 11. A certain Ambrose Etherington was at No. 4 from 1865 until 1878, and S. Claringbull at No. 3 from 1871 until 1878. But in the 1882 directory, Etherington’s house has become No. 9, and Claringbull’s house No. 10! Since the Rochester & Chatham Industrial Home for Friendless Girls at No. 1 Ordnance Terrace is recorded to have been at that address since its foundation, it would appear likely that the renumbering of the houses happened in 1880 or 1881, at the same time the houses in the Chatham High Street were renumbered. The reason for the renumbering was clearly to incorporate the houses in nearby Watt’s Terrace into the rear [as it would become] of Ordnance Terrace. The York Hotel at No. 13 Ordnance Terrace remained a pub until quite recently, although it is today a grocer’s shop. Thus it can be established that the Dickens house at what is today No. 11 Ordnance Terrace is not identical to the murder house that was No. 11 Ordnance Terrace back in 1855. The houses were renumbered around 1881, the Dickens house at No. 2 becoming No. 11, and the murder house at No. 11 becoming No. 2. In spite of the vandalistic ambitions of the local council in the 1970s, Ordnance Terrace still stands today, although its two houses of fame and notoriety have swapped numbers with each other. The Dickens house at what was originally No. 2 [today No. 11] Ordnance Terrace. Left: The birthplace of Charles Dickens in Portsmouth, a postcard stamped and posted in 1902. The house still stands. Above: The Broadstairs house of Charles Dickens, a postcard stamped and posted in 1938. The house is today a Dickens museum. Ripperologist 146 October 2015 58
Another Broadstairs house where Dickens was once busy scribbling away. The London house of Charles Dickens, in Devonshire Terrace, a postcard stamped and posted in 1904. The house no longer stands. A souvenir to Charles Dickens: a postcard stamped and posted in 1912 The Dickens house at No. 48 Doughty Street, Bloomsbury. The house is today the main Charles Dickens museum. Ripperologist 146 October 2015 59
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‘Unfortunates’ and Bêtes Noirs
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Robinson also insinuates darkly tha
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Indeed, courtesy of modern profilin
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Page 11 and 12: He provides a colourful contemporar
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Page 17 and 18: An Ungoverned Passion Journalistic
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Page 21 and 22: According to film critic Laura Mulv
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Page 33 and 34: The following poem, The Ruined Maid
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Page 41 and 42: The Hound of Death: Francis Thompso
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Page 53 and 54: From the Casebooks of a Murder Hous
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