The Dickens Inn wasn’t known to Charles Dickens—it didn’t exist as a pub in his day, but no doubt he would have come here if it had, he went just about everywhere else. It was a plain brick warehouse, and by the nineteen seventies about to be demolished for the redevelopment of St. Katherine’s Dock when it was realised that the brickwork was just a later cosmetic addition to the original wooden structure. So, instead of knocking it down, the original timber frame, weighing over a hundred tons, was moved in its entirety on wheels to its current spot. The pub was opened in 1976 by a grandson of Charles Dickens. The interior is all old wood and beams, as you would expect.