Dickens in Nunhead

Today there is a lot happening to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens.  So it is only reasonable that the Trees Around Nunhead does its bit, by remembering the great man's love affair with Nelly Ternan, who lived at Windsor Lodge in Linden Grove.

He seemed to have used the name Charles Tringham, (a pseudonym he used elsewhere).

Claire Tomalin, writing about the affair refers to it as then “being still a pleasant, open rural area” and cites a contemporary: “There is not in the immediate neighbourhood of London a more agreeable country then  Peckham Rye, Nunhead and adjacent localities”.

So not that much has changed, then.