'Opium Smoking-The Lascar's Room in 'Edwin Drood"', 1872. Limehouse and Pennyfields had opium-smoking and gambling rooms. Charles Dickens described a Docklands opium den in 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood'. From, "LONDON. A Pilgrimage" by Gustave Dore and Blanchard Jerrold. [Grant and Co., 72-78, Turnmill Street, , 1872].

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