Oliver Twist review " picking pockets in the thickets
Williamson Park, LancasterDickens' urban fable works well in a semi-rural setting, and there's real menace in Fagin's gang, despite the wind whipping away some dialogueCharles Dickens visited Lancaster in 1861 with Wilkie Collins and gave the town a mention in The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices. What he didn't do was set Oliver Twist on a wooded hillside overlooking Morecambe Bay, but the Dukes's annual walkabout …