AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
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`In the Borough there still remain some half-dozen old inns which have preserved their external features
unchanged,
and
which
have escaped alike the rage of public improvement and the encroachments of private speculation. Great
rambling queer old places with galleries, passages and staircases wide enough and antiquated enough to furnish
material for a hundred ghost stories' (Pickwick Dickens).
Since Dickens wrote these words, only one old galleried inn remains, the George, with one balconied section intact.
The old High Street, before it was cleared away in 1830 was reputed to be the narrowest leading into the centre of
London. Dickens is remembered also in the Church of St. George's, in the Borough, called also `The church of
Little Dorrit'.