This is the location of Ethel Dickens's first independent type-writing office in which she was the sole proprietor. She opened this office at the end of 1887, possibly as early as October and certainly by December. It was located above the offices of All the Year Round, the literary miscellany magazine started by her grandfather, Charles Dickens, and inherited by her father, Charles Dickens, Jr. (better known as Charley Dickens).