The 2012 Broadstairs Dickens Festival runs from
Saturday 16th June to 22nd inclusive.
The Events page will offer you a programme guide - but do refer to the notice boards around the town during the Festival Week for the most current information.
harles Dickens visited Broadstairs in Kent regularly from 1837 until 1859 and immortalised the town as"Our English Watering Place".
In 1937, to commemorate the centenary of the author's first visit, Gladys Waterer, the then owner of Dickens House, conceived the idea of putting on a production of David Copperfield and of having people about the town in Victorian dress to publicise it. Thus the festival was born and, with the exception of the years of World War 2, has been held annually in the third week of June ever since.
