Longhouse Home Of The Past

Longhouse Home Of The Past

Longhouse Home Of The Past

For many, at the festive season, Charles Dickens’ annual favourite A Christmas Carol has become the literary equivalent of turkey with all the trimmings.

Recently revamped in 21st CGI film guise by Disney, the tale of Scrooge and his ghostly visitors on Christmas Eve has sent a chill down the spine of readers since first appearing in print in 1843.

Victorian England

And while the counting houses of London and the squalor of Victorian England are thought to have provided the imaginative spark for Dickens’ classic short novel, new evidence suggests he was haunted by Yorkshire as the inspiration for the tale.