What the Dickens?

I was struck by the piece in last week’s paper about the state of the borough’s car parks, in which a local resident described one of the car parks as ‘like something out of a Charles Dickens novel’.

I would be interested if the resident could direct me to which of Dickens’ novels dealt with the state of car parks at that time. DOUGLAS TALINTYRE Foxborough Court

Maidenhead Editor’s note: Maybe he had just finished reading Nicholsons Nickleby?