There's a secondary school in Broadstairs, Kent, (my home town), called "Charles Dickens". (Broadstairs was one of the towns he inhabited.) It's known as Charlie Dicks. Both my parents were teachers there at some stage.
The town has numerous places that reflect Dickens, The Charles Dickens, and Barnaby Rudge are names of pubs. There's a Bleak House, Old Curiosity Shop café, and various blue plaques dotted around the town on buildings where he lived and wrote.
There's also an annual
"Dickens Festival Week", when people dress up and walk round in appropriate attire.
