The Market Square Dover
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The Market Square Dover
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 Igglesdens 1788 Click To Enlarge
Bar Elle
Formally the
Elephant & Hind
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The Market Square At The Turn of The Century
 Above a 1923 photo with men waiting
for the coffee stall to open which
was owned by Mr
William Bates who live in Market Street
Igglesden & Graves Corner One of the old parts of the Market Square in Dover where the Igglesden & Graves Bakers/ Restaurant operated for many years. The building which still stands today is where the Charles Dickens character David Copperfield is reputed to have sat on the steps while searching for the home of his Aunt Betsy Trotwood.
Igglesden & Graves "I inquired about my aunt among the boatmen first, and received various answers. One said she lived in the South Foreland Light, and had singed her whiskers by doing so; another, that she was made fast to the great buoy outside the harbour, and could only be visited at half-tide; a third, that she was locked up in Maidstone Jail for child-stealing; a fourth, that she was seen to mount a broom in the last high wind, and make direct for Calais." Carnival Charles Dickens probably the greatest English novelist came to Dover on many occasions, in 1852 he rented 10 Camden Crescent in Dover while he was writing 'Bleak House'. He also made frequent trips to the European Continent passing through Dover and staying at the Lord Warden Hotel at the Western Docks. It is said that Dickens often laid on the Cliffs planning his many works including 'Bleak House' and Great Expectations'. In one of his letters he wrote of Dover whilst in America: Whilst giving a reading before a large intelligent audience at Dover Dickens said 'they wouldn't go but sat applauding like mad' 'the audience with the greatest sense of humour certainly is Dover.'
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