leading over the Thames to
the Festival Hall, and nearby
the London Eye glinting like
a silver beaded bracelet. But
in Victorian times this was a
bleak place. In the 1820s ten-
year-old Charles Dickens
worked close by at
Hungerford Stairs, opposite
the entrance of today’s
Embankment Tube station, as
a ‘shop drudge’ at a blacking
warehouse on six shillings a
week. Dickens later described
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