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Pickwick Bicycle Club Magazine. Volume 9 No.3 October 2012
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200th birthday, 7 February 2012, was marked by a visit to the museum by the Prince of Wales and
Duchess of Cornwall. It is currently closed for refurbishment until December 2012.

Sources: The Oxford Companion to English literature (4th ed., 1985); www.dickensmuseum.com;
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online edition).
THE SUN EXTENDS ITS REACH

Since 2004, the index to the Sun Insurance Office fire policy registers (reference
CLC/B/192/F/001/MS11936), resulting from the A Place in the Sun project, has been available on
The National Archives’ ‘Access to Archives’ (A2A) searchable database.

LMA is now in the process of extending the reach of the Sun index by putting the completed files on
its own online catalogue, thus increasing the chances of an internet search picking up a reference
as well as being more accessible to searchers on site. You can try this for yourself by doing a keyword
search either at LMA or online (you can if you wish narrow the results down to the Sun material by
adding ‘insured’ to the search terms). A great advantage of the LMA catalogue is that a search
presents the whole entry, and results appear in a logical order rather than apparently at random.
Another is that, in future, each Register’s file will be added to the LMA system soon after the checking
process is finished, whereas the files will continue to be uploaded to A2A in batches, at irregular
intervals of up to a year.

Charles Dickens