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
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Holmes & Watson - Barts
The incident commemorated takes place in the first Sherlock Holmes story "A S...
Holmes & Watson - Criterion
Here, New Years Day, 1881, at the Criterion Long Bar, Stamford, dresser at Ba...
Holmes & Watson - Criterion - lost
The presence of Sherlock Holmes at this unveiling is rather misleading since ...
Saville Theatre - Holmes
Ornamental Passions thinks this probably represents Tod Slaughter in the role...
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Marley's ghost
One of Charles Dickens characters from A Christmas Carol (1843).
1 memorial
Henry Earlforward's bookshop
Bookshop in Arnold Bennett's 1923 novel "Riceyman Steps" set in Clerkenwell.
1 memorial
She Stoops to Conquer
Comic play. Probably the best known work of Oliver Goldsmith. Originally entitled 'Mistakes of a Night'. The daughter of a wealthy countryman poses as a servant in order to win over her nervous sui...
1 memorial
Gertrude Fogg
Fictional aunt of the equally fictitious Phileas Fogg who is the central character in the novel 'Around the World in Eighty Days' by Jules Verne.
1 memorial
David Copperfield
One of Charles Dickens characters from David Copperfield (1850).
1 memorial
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War dead, WW2
1 memorial
1 memorial
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