Charles Dickens in Portsmouth
Charles Dickens was born on 7th
February 1812 at 1, Mile End Terrace (387, Mile End Road) Landport. On 24th June 1812 the Dickens family moved to 16, Hawke Street - 'at that time it was considered a perfectly respectable thoroughfare where many officers were placed in lodging houses'. (1) They probably stayed at their lodgings here for about eighteen months (until Christmas 1813) before moving to Southsea. The area of Hawke Street today (1995) contrasts sharply with its appearance in the nineteenth century. Built about 1780, the houses survived until the second world war when it suffered bomb damage. Almost all the houses in the street had to be demolished and were later replaced by blocks of flats.
John Chatterton moved to Hawke Street from 4 Kings Place between 1826 and 1829.
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