Rochester Dickens Festival

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15.5.2012

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about us...
Welcome to our website set up to complement the Medway Council web pages in supporting the Dickens Festivals. Here you will find news, information, pictures, and images.

More contact information can be found on our contact page.

We are sad to report that Brenda Gilliam-Hill , who was 'Miss Havisham' for many years, passed away on December 7th. We have set up a page in her honour.

Louise Copsey
picture of Louise Copsey
1981-2011

Counting down to the Rochester Dickens Bicentenary Summer Festival on
8-10 June 2012 -

The internet version of the Festival brochure is out - CLICK HERE.

(It should also be available in the usual outlets around Rochester, and from the Visitor Centre)

See all the latest updates on our NEWS PAGE

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The Rochester and Chatham Dickens Fellowship is holding a raffle for a valuable picture of Dickens donated by Frasers Autographs, a branch of Stanley Gibbons. This contains a cartouche with a strand of Dickens' hair, authenticated as coming from a lock of hair from the estate of Dickens' sister-in-law Georgina Hogarth. Proceeds will go to the chalet restoration fund and tickets are priced at £5 each - click here for more information.

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Our report on the 2011 Christmas Festival can now be found in our news archive

You can find six albums of the summer Festival in our picture gallery.

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Twice a year Dickens enthusiasts, strolling players, re-enactors, Dickensian 'characters', not to mention a few oddballs, join the public in a Festival to commemorate and celebrate the life of Charles Dickens.This site is here mainly for the benefit of all supporters of the Rochester Dickens Festivals, and to encourage anyone who is thinking about joining in the fun. We have no official status, but keep in contact with the Festival organisers.

We have updated the site, and we are gradually introducing a new way of presenting pictures - we hope you like it, but please do let us know about any problems

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The Rochester Dickens Festival website supports the Dickens Chalet Restoration Appeal. The chalet now resides in the garden of Eastgate House, and looks magnificent, but it is in urgent need of restoration for the 200th Anniversary of Dickens' birth in 2012. You can help directly with a donation, or by supporting fund raising events by the Dickens Fellowship. Visit our Dickens Swiss Chalet page to see more.

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If you would like to contribute to this site in any way, or if you have comments, news, links, pictures or gossip or want us to link to your website, go to our 'contact us' page

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ROCHESTER DICKENS FESTIVAL

The internet version of the Festival brochure is out - CLICK HERE.

(It should also be available in the usual outlets around Rochester, and from the Visitor Centre)

See all the latest updates on our NEWS PAGE

IMAGE RIGHTS