Dickens Bistrohttp://www.themorritt.co.uk:80/dickens-bistro<p><span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;">A new set of murals to celebrate Charles Dickens' links to the region has been painted at the Morrit Country House Hotel.&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;"></span><br style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;" /><br style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;" /><span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;">The work was commissioned by the hotel to celebrate the bicentenary of Dickens' birth on 7 February 2012. &nbsp;Local Teesdale a</span><span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;">rtist Stuart Short completed the work at the historic hotel at Greta Bridge, near Barnard Castle, in three weeks.&nbsp;</span><br style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;" /><br style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;" /><span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;">The new murals complement the existing murals in the Dickens bar that were painted in the 1930's by Northumbrian Artis John Gilr</span><span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;">oy depicting a Dickensian scene of local life in the 17th century.</span></p>