Originally named Sheridan Hope, then Sherringford Holmes and finally Sherlock Holmes. Created by Arthur Conan Doyle, the first story was begun in 1886.
The Festival of Britain had an exhibition especially about Holmes which you can still see.
Originally named Sheridan Hope, then Sherringford Holmes and finally Sherlock Holmes. Created by Arthur Conan Doyle, the first story was begun in 1886.
The Festival of Britain had an exhibition especially about Holmes which you can still see.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Sherlock Holmes
The incident commemorated takes place in the first Sherlock Holmes story "A S...
Here, New Years Day, 1881, at the Criterion Long Bar, Stamford, dresser at Ba...
The presence of Sherlock Holmes at this unveiling is rather misleading since ...
Ornamental Passions thinks this probably represents Tod Slaughter in the role...
Two of Charles Dickens characters from The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-1). Oscar Wilde's response? "It would require a heart of stone not to laugh at the death of Little Nell".
Character in a series of stories set in Greyfriars School, originally published in the boys weekly story magazine 'The Magnet'.
Famous vampire created by Stoker as the eponymous hero (?) of his 1897 novel.
We have found no particular connection between Deakin and this area.
The plaques are either side of the entrance in Tufton Street. A large decorative panel on the Great Peter Street corner reads: The Mary S...
Group that works with local councils, residents, other amenity groups, traders, the police, the Boundary Commission, English Heritage, the Blackheath Joint Working Party and everyone else who can i...
York Way, which runs from King's Cross up to Camden Road, used to be called Maiden (corruption of midden, meaning dung heap) Lane. From ...
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