Appeal to save chalet where Charles Dickens wrote Great Expectations

Published: 8:00AM GMT 06 March 2010

The wooden chalet in Rochester Photo: MIKE GUNNILL

The wooden construction that once stood in the drift of his homeGads Hill Place in Higham, Kent is in unfortunate need of restoration.

Now the Rochester and Chatham Dickens Fellowship hopes to lift �100,000 to finish the work before to 2012, the bicentenary of Dickens"s birth.

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The chalet right away stands in the legislature gardens of Eastgate House, Rochester and was a benefaction to the bard from French actress Charles Fechter. It arrived at Higham railway hire in 1864 in 58 detached boxes.

Dickens wrote most of A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, Our Mutual Friend and The Uncommercial Traveller in the chalet, that was accessed around a specifically done hovel underneath the main Rochester to London Road at Higham.

He was essay The Mystery of Edwin Drood in the chalet unaware the River Thames and panorama the day he died.

John Knott authority of the Rochester and Dickens Fellowship, pronounced the construction unequivocally needs to be utterly taken detached and each bit of decaying timber replaced.

At the impulse it is vulnerable to go inside but once replacement is finish we goal to open it for special events and appointments.