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Department 56 is a U.S. manufacturer of holiday collectibles, ornaments and giftware, known for its lit Christmas village collections and Snowbabies collection. It is owned by Enesco and based in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. The brand's first products were issued in 1976, and various distinct villages and sub-series have been introduced since then.
The house was bought in 1890 by the Hon. Francis Law Latham, the then Advocate-General of Bombay. [9] In 1924 the house became Gad's Hill School, which it remains today. [10] As of 2013, the school was moving into purpose-built buildings in the grounds of the house, and there was a plan to open the house as a museum. [11] [12]
Eastgate House is a Grade I listed Elizabethan townhouse in Rochester, Kent, England. [1] It is notable for its association with author Charles Dickens, featuring as Westgate in The Pickwick Papers and as the Nun's House in The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Now a Dickens Museum, the grounds of Eastgate House contain the Swiss chalet in which Dickens ...
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In the nineteenth century, it was an exclusive residential street and had gates at either end to restrict entry and these were manned by porters. [1] Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine Dickens (née Hogarth) lived here with the eldest three of their ten children, with the older two of Dickens's daughters, Mary Dickens and Kate Macready Dickens being born in the house.
Miller's traced its history to the New York Racket Store, established in 1889 at 510 Market Street in Chattanooga by brothers Gus and Frank Miller. After a fire destroyed the Richardson Building in 1897, the brothers built a new store at Seventh and Market Streets that was known as Miller Brothers Department Store. [1]
We would also say to those who wish to sell negroes, bring them to our market on Adams street, and they shall have value received, &c. BOLTON, DICKENS & CO. (Memphis Daily Eagle, September 26, 1849) Bolton, Dickens & Co. was a slave-trading business of the antebellum United States, headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee.
Close by, just to the north in Borough High Street, is the historic St George the Martyr church, where the Charles Dickens character Little Dorrit was married in Dickens' book of the same name. The area around Lant Street has many Dickens associations. [3] The street is also one of main locations of the plot of Sarah Waters' Fingersmith.