Dotheboys Hall Now A Cafe
LONDON, Sept. 11. An old house named ''The Villa" at( Bowes, Cumberland, which was the original of Diekens's Dotheboys Hall in "Nieholas Xicklebv," has reeently been turned into a cafe. During the war the house served as temporary aecummodation for troops evaeuatod from Dunkirk, and until re-e.-ntlv it was still in the possession of two elderly ladies who are direct de-S'-endant of Willi.m Shaw, who_ was u -i'i ! iiy Diekens as the prototvpe of V.'-o-ktord Sipieers. Neither the ladies }■■'!• the inliabitants of the village of 1 :>wes eare to be reminded of Shaw, v ho, in lsffii, was sued by the father of oue of his pupil.s for ill-treating boys iittfnding liis " aeadeiny. " The trial '.«h-d with the jury linding for the pltiintill' and awarding him £.100 dam-
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Chronicle (Levin), 13 September 1949, Page 5
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