Dickens Tea Cottage, 5 South Street, Eastbourne, East Sussex
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Dickens Tea Cottage, 5 South Street, Eastbourne, East Sussex
Image: © Adrian Diack Taken: 2 Mar 2024
The photo shows Dickens Tea Cottage at 5 South Street, Eastbourne in East Sussex. Dickens Tea Cottage is the more distant of the two white buildings, in the photo, and it has the last car in the line of parked cars outside its front window. It is believed that Charles Dickens stayed there for a night when the building was a boarding house. In the 1830's, Dickens made a number of visits to Eastbourne and he took part in amateur dramatics at the, now long lost, wooden theatre which was also in South Street. The former boarding house was built in 1719 but it has been a tearoom for over sixty years. The quaint tearoom has an olde worlde charm and a deliberately created old fashioned feel part of which arises from the walls being decorated with Dickens memorabilia to such an extent that there is scarcely any space for more.
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Image Location
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50.766425
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0.278565