Six Poor Travelers House 1

Six Poor Travelers House, Rochester. Established by Richard Watts as a charity, the house provided food, accommodation for one night (or longer if the traveler was ill), and four pence (because carrying less than four pence would subject the travelers to the vagrancy laws) to poor travelers passing through Rochester. Charles Dickens visited the house and wrote the Christmas story "The Seven Poor Travelers," putting himself in the tale as the seventh traveler. www.richardwatts.org.uk/pt_history.html