On 14th March a group of us joined our guide, Robert Coleman (in Charlie Chaplin costume) for a wander around Kennington to see the places which were significant to Charlie Chaplin in his early life. We saw the last surviving building in the Lambeth Workhouse, Charlie, his mother and brother, Sidney, stayed when they were thrown out by his father. We saw the house where they lived when his mother emerged from the workhouse and the house where they lived with his father when his mum was incarcerated in an Asylum. We learned where he was taught to tap dance by his uncle and saw the scenes and characters which he reproduced on a film lot in California in later life. We heard of the life long relationship that Charlie had with his older and younger brothers and the care they took of their mother after her battles with mental health.
