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27.11.2021

 LATEST NEWS FOR 2021

Tickets sales for the Mistletoe Ball close on Friday 26th November

 Latest official news -
The Dickensian Christmas Festival 2021
 Saturday and Sunday, 4 and 5 December between 10am and 5.30pm

We have a new and much fuller post from 'Visit Medway' - CLICK HERE

The post includes -

Travel, including 'park and ride' (£1 return, children free, last bus back 6PM)
Cathedral opening and service times
Attractions
Seven Poor Travellers’ Procession 11am on both days.
Main parades 12pm on both days.
Candle lit parades 4.45pm on both days.
Carols for Christmas 5PM on both days.

The Mistletoe Ball

The Mistletoe Ball has been confirmed for the evening of Friday 3rd December 2021, doors open 7 PM to dine at 7:30, in the Rochester Corn Exchange, Rochester ME1 1LS!

Tickets at £30 including a traditional Christmas dinner are available until 26 November from the Medway Tickets Live! box office

Until normal meetings can be resumed The Rochester and Chatham Dickens Fellowship is running virtual meetings on ZOOM, details below. Details of these and other meetings can be found on the website of the International Dickens Fellowship

News about the 2019 Dickensian Christmas festival has moved to our news archive page

Dates for Dickens events in 2021
(and other events of interest)

Please check on the organisers' official websites by clicking on the links

The Rochester and Chatham Dickens Fellowship normally holds regular meetings on the 3rd Thursday of the month in Gads Hill School in Higham. Currently the group is getting back to a more normal schedule. For more information about all these meetings or membership applications please visit the website of the Dickens Fellowship or contact Hon. Secretary - stevemartin54@hotmail.com

The Rochester and Chatham meetings calendar can be found here

Further details, Steve Martin 01474 560250 or stevemartin54@hotmail.com

The Mistletoe Ball
The Corn Exchange, Rochester ME1 1LS
Friday, 3 December 2021 doors open 7PM to dine at 7:30

The curtain raiser to the Dickensian Christmas festival

Tickets from the Medway Tickets Live box office at £30 until 26 November

Dickensian Christmas Festival
Rochester High Street
Saturday and Sunday, 4 and 5 December between 10am and 5.30pm

Parades will take place from 12pm and 4.45pm on both days.

Official website

Please check on the organisers' official websites by clicking on the links

Let us know if you want to see your event here

News of similar events round the country will be posted here as they become available. The 'Victorian Strollers' website has an events page for most of the country.