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Brixton Road
25/05/11 13:11 Filed in: Locations
"I thought I would take a look round and see that all was right down the Brixton Road." (Constable John Rance)
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Assizes
11/08/09 17:30 Filed in: Additional Information
Tottenham Court Road
22/06/09 15:38 Filed in: Locations
British Museum
19/06/09 16:02 Filed in: Locations
Holmes spent a morning in the British Museum looking up Voodoo and Negroid Religions.
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Mrs Hudson
21/08/08 23:30 Filed in: Incidental Characters
Mrs. Hudson has made some change in that figure eight times, or once in every quarter of an hour. She works it from the front, so that her shadow may never be seen.
Advertisement
13/08/08 14:00 Filed in: Letters, telegrams, notices etc.
Advertisement which Holmes had put in all the evening papers.
- ‘Found at the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6.30 this evening at 221b Baker Street.’
Mrs Hudson
10/08/08 21:01 Filed in: Incidental Characters
“Mrs. Hudson has risen to the occasion,” said Holmes, uncovering a dish of curried chicken. “Her cuisine is a little limited, but she has as good an idea of breakfast as a Scotchwoman.” (Sherlock Holmes)
Inspector Bradstreet
18/07/08 15:06 Filed in: Incidental Characters
Inspector Bradstreet of Scotland Yard.
Disjecta membra and the pink 'un'
17/07/08 16:47 Filed in: Additional Information
Mr Henry Baker declined to take the ‘Disjecta membra’ of his former goose with him.
- Disjecta membra translates as ‘scattered fragments’.
- The pink ‘un’ refers to The Sporting Times.
Assizes, Penal Servitude
17/07/08 16:40 Filed in: Additional Information
Assize Court now known as the Crown Court
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Penal Servitude. Sherlock Holmes fears John Horner will get seven years Penal Servitude if he is not cleared of the robbery.
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Penal Servitude. Sherlock Holmes fears John Horner will get seven years Penal Servitude if he is not cleared of the robbery.
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Scotch bonnets, billycocks and ulsters
17/07/08 16:24 Filed in: Additional Information
Mr Henry Baker wore a scotch bonnet after loosing his hat. A scotch bonnet was a flat brimless cap.
- Sherlock Holmes refers to Mr Baker’s hat as a billycock. This usually described any round crowned brimmed hats of felt, such as the bowler.
- Ulster coat and cravats. Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson wrapped up against the December weather wearing these clothes.
- Ulster:
- A Heavy double-breated overcoat with a belt or half-belt at the back.
- A scarf of silk or fine wool worn round the neck.
Sherlock Holmes - Deductions
17/07/08 16:10 Filed in: Deductions
“It is perhaps less suggestive than it might have been,” he remarked. Read More...
Sherlock Holmes - Character Illustrations
17/07/08 16:07 Filed in: Character Illustrations
“I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss my results.” Read More...
Sherlock Holmes - Sayings
17/07/08 16:02 Filed in: Sayings
“The matter is a perfectly trivial one” — he jerked his thumb in the direction of the old hat — “but there are points in connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and even of instruction.” Read More...
Hard felt hat
17/07/08 16:00 Filed in: Artifacts and Curiosities
The hard felt hat belonging to Mr Henry Baker from which Sherlock Holmes was able to deduce so much about its’ owner.
Blue Carbuncle
17/07/08 15:58 Filed in: Artifacts and Curiosities
The carbuncle is a beautiful gem of a rich red color found in the East Indies. Read More...
Man with the Twisted Lip
17/07/08 15:53 Filed in: Canon Cross References
Another Adventure concerning the disappearance of Mr Neville St. Clair.
Kilburn, London
17/07/08 15:36 Filed in: Locations
Pentonville Prison
17/07/08 15:30 Filed in: Locations
Maudesley, James Ryder’s friend had served a prison sentence here.
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Brixton Road
17/07/08 15:23 Filed in: Locations
Mrs Maggie Oakshott, sister of James Ryder lived at No. 117 Brixton Road.
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Holborn, London
17/07/08 15:19 Filed in: Locations
In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at the Alpha Inn, which is a small public-house at the corner of one of the streets which runs down into Holborn.
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Covent Garden, London
17/07/08 15:14 Filed in: Locations
We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market.
Covent Garden market where Mr Breckinridge sold fowl. He sent two dozen geese to the landlord of the Alpha Inn who gave one to Mr Henry Baker.
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Covent Garden market where Mr Breckinridge sold fowl. He sent two dozen geese to the landlord of the Alpha Inn who gave one to Mr Henry Baker.
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Bloomsbury, London
17/07/08 15:11 Filed in: Locations
The area of London which houses the British Museum and the Alpha Inn frequented by Mr Henry Baker.
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Wigmore Street, Oxford Street
17/07/08 15:01 Filed in: Locations
After walking through the Doctors’ quarter from Baker Street, Holmes and Watson walked down Wigmore Street and through into Oxford Street.
Wigmore Street
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Oxford Street
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Wigmore Street
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Oxford Street
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Doctors quarter. Wimpole Street and Harley Street
17/07/08 14:41 Filed in: Locations
An area of London renowned for the number of private consulting rooms and specialist doctors.
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British Museum, London
17/07/08 14:31 Filed in: Locations
Alpha Inn
17/07/08 14:25 Filed in: Locations
The Alpha Inn near the British Museum where the Landlord ran a ‘Goose Club’ and through which Mr Henry Baker received his Christmas goose. This appears to be a fictious Inn.
Amoy River, China
17/07/08 14:19 Filed in: Locations
The Amoy River is a fictional name but there is a city known as Amoy on the mouth of a river in China and this would seem to be worth noting.
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Cosmopolitan Hotel
16/07/08 17:46 Filed in: Locations
The Countess of Morcar was staying here when the Blue Carbuncle was stolen from her room.
Tottenham Court Road
16/07/08 17:34 Filed in: Locations
It was here on the corner with Goodge Street that Mr Henry Baker lost his hat and goose.
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Goodge Street
16/07/08 17:30 Filed in: Locations
Mr Henry Baker lost his hat and his goose on the corner of Tottenham Court Road and Goodge Street.
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Maudesley
16/07/08 17:25 Filed in: Incidental Characters
A friend of Ryder who had ‘gone to the bad’ and to whom he took the goose and where it was cut open to reveal an empty crop.
Maggie Oakshott
16/07/08 17:23 Filed in: Incidental Characters
James Ryder's sister who fattened fowl for the market.
Breckinridge
16/07/08 17:22 Filed in: Incidental Characters
One of the largest stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor a horsy-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was helping a boy to put up the shutters.
Mr Windigate
16/07/08 17:20 Filed in: Incidental Characters
Mr Windigate, Landlord of the Alpha Inn near the Museum frequented by Mr Henry Baker.
Inspector Bradstreet
16/07/08 17:17 Filed in: Incidental Characters
Inspector Bradstreet was on duty at Bow Street police station when Sherlock Holmes called to reveal the answer to the mystery.
Catherine Cusack
16/07/08 17:13 Filed in: Incidental Characters
Maid of the Countess of Morcar and co-conspirator with James Ryder.
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John Horner
16/07/08 17:11 Filed in: Incidental Characters
Plumber called to fix a small problem in the Countess of Morcar’s room and then accused of stealing the Blue Carbuncle.
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Countess of Morcar
16/07/08 17:05 Filed in: Incidental Characters
From whom the Blue Carbuncle was stolen. It had great sentimental value for her and she offered the reward of £1000 for its return.
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Peterson the Commissionaire
16/07/08 17:02 Filed in: Incidental Characters
The Commissionaire who brought the goose and the hat to Sherlock Holmes.
Mr Henry Baker
16/07/08 16:38 Filed in: Main Characters
The owner of the goose and the black felt hat. Read More...
James Ryder
16/07/08 15:36 Filed in: Main Characters
Upper Attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan(referred to as ‘Jem’ by his sister) who stole the Blue Carbuncle from the Countess of Morcar.
Inspector Bradstreet
14/07/08 13:44 Filed in: Incidental Characters
Inspector on duty at Bow Street Police Station where Hugh Boone was kept on remand.
221b Baker Street, London
13/07/08 15:58 Filed in: Locations
Home of Sherlock Holmes and at times Dr John Watson.
They (the rooms) consisted of a couple of comfortable bedrooms and a single large airy sitting-room, cheerfully furnished, and illuminated by two broad windows.
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They (the rooms) consisted of a couple of comfortable bedrooms and a single large airy sitting-room, cheerfully furnished, and illuminated by two broad windows.
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- 221b Baker Street
- Wikipedia
- Victorian London Map (1)
- Victorian London Map (2)
- Layout of 221b Baker Street
Scandal in Bohemia
09/07/08 14:22 Filed in: Canon Cross References
The case in which Sherlock Holmes tried to recover a photograph of the King of Bohemia and Irene Adler, in appreciation of which the King sent Sherlock Holmes a snuffbox of old gold with a great amethyst in the centre of the lid.
Tottenham Court Road
09/07/08 13:23 Filed in: Locations
Mrs Hudson
02/07/08 16:41 Filed in: Incidental Characters
Long sufferring Landlady of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.
Sherlock Holmes
30/06/08 14:14 Filed in: Main Characters
“Well, I have a trade of my own. I suppose I am the only one in the world. I’m a consulting detective, if you can understand what that is. Here in London we have lots of government detectives and lots of private ones. When these fellows are at fault, they come to me, and I manage to put them on the right scent." (Sherlock Holmes) (Study in Scarlet)
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