Rochester - High Street

Opposite the Bull Hotel stands the Guildhall, built in 1687, which now houses the Rochester town museum.

At 144 High Street is the Kenneth Bills Motor Cycle Museum, which displays British motorcycles from 1921 to 1977.

On the left of Rochester's Guildhall, just before theturning into Northgate, is the Old Corn Exchange, easily recognizable because of its enormous clock. This building was commissioned by the member of parliament Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell in 1706 as the town's meat market and was only converted into a granary in the 19th century.

A"Dickens house", on the left of High Street, is the Elizabethan Watt's Charity or Poor Travelers House. This was set up by Richard Watts in 1579 as overnight shelter for six poor travelers, and in so doing he established a tradition which lasted right up to World War II. Dickens mentions the house in his Christmas stories.

The former Bull Inn, over 400 years old, was renamed the Royal Victoria and Bull Hotel after the queen visited it in 1836. In "Pickwick Papers" it appears as the Bull Hotel, while in "Great Expectations" it is the Blue Boar.