The Old Curiosity Shop - Believed to be the Inspiration for Dickens' Novel: A curious shop, set in the midst of legal London is The Old Curiosity Shop in Holborn, whose shop front proudly claims its Charles Dickens connection. Dickens fans will be very familiar with "The Old Curiosity Shop", a story about Nell Trent, her grandfather and the evil and malicious Quilp, the hunchbacked dwarf moneylender, a book which Dickens published in 1840. As can be seen on the side of the building the … [Read more...]