plaque № 47000
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# Angel Yard Standing in the shadowed confines of Angel Yard, you're witnessing the very geography of Victorian literary immortality—this cramped, labyrinthine alley between Bermondsey Street and the Thames was the inspiration for Fagin's den in *Oliver Twist*, where Charles Dickens observed the sq...
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Angel Yard
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There was not one straight floor from the foundation to the roof; the ceilings were so fantastically clouded by smoke and dust that old women might have told fortunes in them better than in grouts of tea