Charles Culliford Boz Dickens

Dickens's Dictionary of London, 1888: An Unconventional Guidebook

Old House Books, 1993.

Regent's Park: 'It is a great place for skating. A band plays near the broad walk on Sunday in summer, and a vast amount of cricket of a homely class enlivens the north-eastern portion of the park on Saturday afternoons' Primrose Hill: 'It is very popular with holiday makers who are unable to get out of town, although, with the exception of a rather small open-air gymnasium, there is nothing to contribute to the public amusement'

Dickens the novelist had died in 1870, and the author of the Guidebook series (they appeared annually from 1879, and included a calendar of forthcoming events) was his eldest son, known as Charley. Publishers, then and now, rarely mention this fact, which has led to some confusion in later years.