Jonah Fenn
The lamplighter who knows the Passage window by window.
Look closer at the illustration ↗Jonah’s round leads downhill through Amberwick Passage. The lamps are his work, but a round also means chemists, toymakers, booksellers and neighbours who know the sound of him coming.
Rosie, Kit and Poppy are waiting in the Fenn household. Kit is not yet big enough to join his father properly, though the possibility has already been discussed.
Jonah keeps the last lamp for himself. The Old Gentleman stands over the river steps, at the end of a street full of lives he has watched change.
People they know
Rosie Fenn tends the kettle beside the kitchen range. 
Kit Fenn sits at the checked kitchen table in his nightshirt. Kit Fenn
His son
Kit asks Jonah to leave their lamp until last. Two taps on its post are the signal to come to the window.
Constable Dimmock, in his helmet and dark cape, stands in the lamplit Passage. Constable Dimmock
The constable on his round
Dimmock keeps an eye on the lamps while Jonah keeps an eye on the doors. Each tells the other what needs attention.
Edward Bellweather · Current character illustration. Edward Bellweather
A toymaker on his round
Edward shows Jonah the little lamplighter he is making for the winter window. Jonah remembers him as a boy outside the shop.
Ambrose Peverell · From the illustrated world of Candlebury Ambrose Peverell
His cobbler
Jonah has known Ambrose for more than twenty years; Ambrose has resoled his boots.
Places in their stories
Amberwick Passage
A London street that slopes towards the river, one lit window after another.
Bellweather & Sons
A wooden horse over the door. A family at work inside.
Ambrose and Clara in the workshop, from Ambrose the Cobbler and His Dancing Shoes.
Ambrose’s cobbler’s shop
Number 42, Amberwick Passage, with a carved boot above the door.
Miss Wren at her upstairs window, with Jonah beside the bookshop lamp.
Miss Wren’s bookshop
A bow window full of books, and a voice reading from the room above.
A short scene from here
The clockwork mouseOne more turnMiss Wren’s basketCustoms & details
Stories
The Lamplighter’s Round
Walk Jonah Fenn’s evening round, from shop windows and familiar doorways down to the last lamp by the river.
With Jonah Fenn, Bartholomew Bellweather, Rosie Fenn, Kit Fenn, Constable Dimmock, Edward Bellweather