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18 Pickwick Bicycle Club Magazine. Volume 10 No.2 July 2013
Last year we celebrated the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Dickens, and of
course, we know how the club was founded and named after the Papers’ The
following account of his death however, appeared together with an obit.
The Death of Charles Dickens – 9 June 1870
Posted on June 7th, 2013 by The British Newspaper Archive
Charles John Huffam
Dickens (aka ‘Boz’) died at
Gad’s Hill Place in Higham,
Kent, on June 1870, aged
58.
To mark the day, we thought
we’d wear a red geranium
(his favourite flower) and
post this warm newspaper
tribute to the passing of
‘Boz’.
