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34. Charles Dickens in the Eight Bells, Old Hatfield? (part 1)

According to Wikipedia, The Eight Bells is a grade 11 listed public house in Old Hatfield, Hertfordshire and it has a timber frame from around the sixteenth century and a nineteenth-century front.

 

The pub has associations with the author Charles Dickens. Dickens is known to have stayed there in the 1830s, and it is believed to be the pub in Hatfield visited by his fictional character Bill Sikes.

 

I missed this pub when our office moved in 1999.

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Uploaded on May 14, 2021
Taken sometime in 1999