The famous eagle profile
The famous eagle profile with a permanent pipe in its teeth greets those arriving at the Baker Street station in the form of an ornament decorating its walls. And already on the street, opposite the station entrance, stands a bronze Holmes, dressed in a lion-like cloak and a checkered hat with two visors (which, by the way, is not mentioned in Doyle's texts at all).
Along Baker Street
Those who come to Albion today to personally visit the places associated with the life and work of the famous detective and to discover the England of Sherlock Holmes are waiting for a well-tuned machine for earning money from gullible tourists who roll along Baker Street. Of course, it is unforgivable not to visit the London house-museum, but to limit yourself to this essentially tourist attraction means not to be a true Sherlockian.
Sherlock Holmes was "born" in 1887
Sherlock Holmes was "born" in 1887, and in the 1950s and 60s sherlokomania flourished - in the troubled years of the collapse of the British Empire, ordinary Englishmen remembered a private detective who always emerged victorious and his faithful friend.
Sherlock Holmes Pub
Sherlock Holmes Pub This building became a pub only in 1957, and until that time there was the Northumberland Arms Hotel - the one where Sir Henry Baskerville stayed at one time and where Stapleton stole his shoe so that his terrible dog could sniff it. Today the pub houses another reconstruction of the living room of the virtuoso of the deductive method, here you can treat yourself to soup "from Mrs. Hudson" and take a photo next to the wax Holmes. Address: 10-11 Northumberland Street, Westminster, Charing Cross Metro Station
Cornwall
Here, on the Lizard Peninsula, on the ocean shore, Holmes and Watson, who had come to rest and improve their health, were involved in events called the "Cornwall horror" by the press. The cottage where Holmes and Watson lived in Poldu Bay has not survived, and in the house of the Trigennis family, whose tragedy is described in the story "The Devil's Foot", today a family of ordinary farmers lives
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