A CHEF and restaurateur in Henley is delighted after being allowed to serve food outside. Shaun Dickens, who runs the Bistro at the Boathouse in Station Road, a.
A previously unseen pair of highly personal and private lockets exchanged between Charles Dickens and his sister-in-law are set to go on display in London next month.
The author was 23 when he met his future wife Catherine Hogarth, then 19, in Fulham, west London in 1835.
At the same time, he was also introduced to her two sisters, Mary, who was 14, and Georgina, who was six.
Some speculate Mary became the true love of his life and the inspiration behind some of his most famous characters, with Charles giving Mary a locket containing a stand of his own hair.
She tragically died just three years later, and Georgina gave Dickens a similar pendant with Mary s hair inside in 1837. Both are set to go on display at the Charles Dickens Museum next month.
Tokens of affection were exchanged with sister-in-law whose early death influenced the authorâs work
A heart-shaped locket owned by Mary Hogarth, containing a lock of her brother-in-law Charles Dickensâs hair, and a silver locket, with moss agate stone, containing a lock of Hogarthâs hair given to Dickens by his mother-in-law in 1837. Photograph: Charles Dickens Museum collection
A heart-shaped locket owned by Mary Hogarth, containing a lock of her brother-in-law Charles Dickensâs hair, and a silver locket, with moss agate stone, containing a lock of Hogarthâs hair given to Dickens by his mother-in-law in 1837. Photograph: Charles Dickens Museum collection
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THE owners of a riverside restaurant in Henley want to be able to serve food to customers outside.
Shaun and Gemma Dickens, who own Bistro at the Boathouse in Station Road, are already permitted to serve drinks on the decking between 6pm and 9pm.
Now they want to serve food between those times as well, saying this would attract customers and help them recover from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.
But residents of neighbouring Boathouse Reach have objected, saying they would be affected by the additional noise.
Care home residents shed tears of joy after they became among the very first in England to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine, alongside their carers.
Pauline Dickens, 84, a resident of Wellcroft Care Home, based near Gatley, Stockport, is looking forward to hugging her four grandchildren for the first time since March 2020 after receiving a dose of the vaccine today.
The vaccine has been rolled out to GP surgeries, with care home residents and staff among the top of the waiting list.
The target for mid-February is for 13million people in the top four priority groups to be vaccinated.
Pauline Dickens, 84, (pictured) was one of the first care home patients to be administered with the new Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine