Dickens was just 11-years-old when he was forced to leave school in the autumn of 1823.
He began work in the Warren’s Blacking Factory at Hungerford Stairs on the north side of the River Thames, near where Charing Cross Station stands today.
By the time the family left the address, Dickens was world famous, having written a trio of wildly successful novels – The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby. The well was underneath the London Canal Museum and the bottle was donated to the collection by the Canal Museum that year.Frankie Kubicki, senior curator at the Charles Dickens museum, said: “Although Dickens never spoke of the blacking factory publicly, his life there was an experience he would never forget.
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