Southwark’s dog on a pole with a bowl — and Charles Dickens

Opposite Southwark tube station is a tall pole, and on top of the pole is a dog and a bowl, and they are there in memory of Charles Dickens.
How so you might wonder?It was erected by Southwark Council in 2013, to mark the bicentenary of Charles Dickens birth in 1812, and marks the location of a shop that had a famous shop sign hanging outside, of a dog and a pot, which was a local landmark. Charles Dickens would often pass it in his early years as a journalist as it was on his route to and from