In 1852 Dickens travelled to Redhill in Surrey by train to visit the Philanthropic School there.  He recorded his impressions in the Household Words article 'Boys To Mend’ in September 1852.To commemorate the 150th anniversary of Reigate and Redhill being granted municipal borough status by Queen Victoria, Dickens’s great, great grandson ’Christopher Whinney’ has launched a well produced self-guide walk of the route Dickens took, which is attached.