Edmund, a Pupil at St Mary's RC Primary School. Dickens is known to have travelled to Shrewsbury many times to visit the old Shrewsbury Theatre, staying at the Lion Hotel in a room which is now called the Dickens Suite. Manager Nigel Mann said one of the author's visits was chronicled in the 1838 Charles Dickens Journal. That entry recalls how he arrived at the Lion Hotel on October 31, the week before Oliver Twist was to be published, and spent the evening at the Shrewsbury Theatre. He wrote: "I am lodged in the strangest little rooms, the ceilings of which I can touch with my hands. From the windows I can look all downhill and slantwise at the crookedest black and white houses, all of many shapes except straight." Said Nigel: "The view has changed very little since Dickens first stood on the balcony outside his room. The biggest difference he would of course notice is all the traffic."