Woos Walk to the Remembrance Service

This morning I went to Rochester Cathedral for the Remembrance service and took a few photos on the way and enjoyed a cup of coffee

 

Good afternoon @Jiffy and @Fern4 and thank you my friends,yes it was so peaceful , the best time of the day,lovely service and a grand march past

 

Good morning @Sheal ,thank you my friend

 

Very nice pictures, Woo

Does the owner of the restaurant in picture 2 know the meaning of the name of his restaurant?

 

Good morning @shiney my friend ,I know the owner very well,as Rochester is everything Charles Dickens it was named after(The Tope family) Mr Tope the verger of Cloisterham (Rochester) Cathedral. from his unfinished and last book "The Mystery of Edwin Drood


Books
The Pickwick Papers – 1836
Oliver Twist – 1837
Nicholas Nickleby – 1838
The Old Curiosity Shop – 1840
Barnaby Rudge – 1841
Martin Chuzzlewit – 1843
Dombey and Son – 1846
David Copperfield – 1849
Bleak House – 1852
Hard Times – 1854
Little Dorrit – 1855
A Tale of Two Cities – 1859
Great Expectations – 1860
Our Mutual Friend – 1864
The Mystery of Edwin Drood – 1870

Partial Listing of Short Stories and Other Works by Charles Dickens in Alphabetical Order
American Notes
The Battle of Life
The Chimes: A Goblin Story
A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Tree
A Dinner at Poplar Walk
Doctor Marigold’s Prescriptions
A Flight
Frozen Deep
George Silverman’s Explanation
Going into Society
The Haunted Man
Holiday Romance
The Holly-Tree
Hunted Down
The Long Voyage
Master Humphrey’s Clock
A Message from the Sea
Mrs. Lirriper’s Legacy
Public Life of Mr. Trumble, Once Mayor of Mudfog
Sketches by Boz
The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton
Sunday under Three Heads
Tom Tiddler’s Ground
Travelling Abroad – City of London Churches
The Uncommercial Traveller
Wreck of the Golden Mary

 

Hi @wiseowl

When I was at school I had to write a paper on Charles Dickens That was my punishment for writing an essay, for an exam, on why I thought it was wrong to tell us what an author was intending us to think instead of allowing us to say what we thought it meant!

The word tope goes back two hundred years before Dickens and, as a verb, means to imbibe an excess of alcohol. As a noun a toper is a drunkard. I wrote in my essay that I thought Dickens was deliberately implying that the Verger was a secret alcoholic. It didn't go down very well with the English teacher