Rochester: here lived Joe Specks, an uncommercial traveller
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Rochester: here lived Joe Specks, an uncommercial traveller
Image: © Chris Downer Taken: 29 Sep 2013
A small stone plaque above a bookshop in the High Street notes that Joe Specks, who features in The Uncommercial Traveller, a collection of reminiscences by Charles Dickens. Strangely, I do not appear to have photographed the whole building.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.390589
Longitude
0.502924