Charles Dickens' Rochester
Sir John Falstaff Pub
April 2011
Sir John Falstaff is a pub across the road from Dickens' home at Gads Hill. In Shakepeare's Henry IV Falstaff conspires with Prince Hal, the future Henry V, to commit a robbery on the Dover Road at Gads Hill. Dickens wrote that "The robbery was committed before the door, on the ground now covered by the room in which I write. A little rustic alehouse, called the Sir John Falstaff, is over the way, has been over the way ever since, in honour of the event."
Sir John Falstaff Pub
Sir John Falstaff Pub
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