Show FAGINS FAGIN'S RETREAT I TO BE TORN DOWN Another Landmark of Charles Dickens Will Wi Soon Be Wiped Out Out i I London Sept Sopt Sopt 9 Rents tho the old buildings Immortalized b by Charles Dickens in Oliver TV Twist lit litas as a the time haunt of or Fagin the tho Jew ore are soon boon to come comae down town to make malo room for I modern offices Historically there are I few old London buildings t with wih o so O in- in I creating a history us The llie 10 Rents as they are still called caled in the neighborhood neighbor neighbor- hood Before time Francis II Bacon lived In these bul buildings It I Ito was o here hore that Bacon drew up a catalogue of his furniture the time value alue of oC which he he- placed at about double time the sum in those days as compared to present values In Iii tho thio very early curly da lays days s the neighborhood was one of oC hit ilu swell parts of uC London the Ume district being residential Fuh Fuh oud Ful cud house the house the town mansion of oC Jam Jum Janus r occupied In the tho time S of if I James Jumes I the quiet quie seclusion of if Gra Gray Inn hum the famous seat of oC legal learning rime Tho house of Fulwood was as one omme of the time finest in England In tho the time of or Dickens Lon London on had bad as RR it Jt word were grown vJ ro UJ up umi and amid the time I Hunts hoots became ono one io of of the thu lowest t quarters of ot tho thio metropolis Inhabited by vagabonds thieves and the chins chui I of or tho the underworld so o vividly I portrayed by tho time blea great l novelist Dick Dick- ons elms lived U in iii inn hm just around time the corner from Fulwood Ful Rents Honts and used to know a t lodger in to inthe II the group roup of buildings with wih the time unsavory unsavory un un- Unsavory savory reputation It 1 wa was while pay PLY Jn lug ing a visit Isit to this acquaintance that Dickens formed the idea iden of making the I I place tho the scene of ot a thieves l kitchen Before DIckens's time J Jack acl Sheppard the time famous bandit had found a u hiding place within tho old rookery so 80 Dickens Dickens Dick Dick- Did I ens was not far wrong in locating more modern thieves in the time buildings Today I Rents stand ju just t back of Chancery lane Iune Tube station and American 1 visitors frequently alight to ho bo guided to tho tutu very ery or spot where Oliver Ol cr Twist learned to In the tho disappearance disappear disappear- undo ance of ot these old oM buildings London ill wi iO lose loso ono one of Its 11 most hl historic and Interesting landmarks |