Oliver Twist and all that, extra

After this blog comes a further four tracing the movements of Bill Sykes from Charles Dickens's novel 'Oliver Twist'. I wanted to include these pictures in the blogs but Blogger allowed only four instead of five for some reason, so I have put them here as a taster!
This shows the section of the original road into Hatfield which now is part of the Hatfield House estate. Halfway along the lefthand side is a bend in the wall...
...where the original road has been blocked off and made into a private memorial garden.
You will see other pictures of the 'Eight Bells' pub where Bill Sykes ended up, and this is another view.
Evie in her blog talks of how she accompanied me on the outing, and this is to prove it, taken on the street leading down to the 'Eight Bells'.

Just think, when 'Oliver Twist' was written, cameras had only just been invented, car windows were a long way away, and the time and opportunity to do such an outing were beyond the ordinary person's dreams. And what's more to get there we travelled by train, which also were in their infancy. Bill Sykes walked over 20 miles. It says he was tired out. He had walked more than that straight 20. 'Tis more than I can do to do a quarter of that without resting!