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Watt Street Chapel
04/08/08 17:26 Filed in: Additional Information
Guild of St. George
04/08/08 17:24 Filed in: Additional Information
The Guild of St. George, which was formed in connection with the Watt Street Chapel for the purpose of supplying the poor with cast-off clothing.
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King David
04/08/08 17:17 Filed in: Additional Information
“You remember the small affair of Uriah and Bathsheba? My Biblical knowledge is a trifle rusty, I fear, but you will find the story in the first or second of Samuel.”
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- II Samuel, Chapter 11
General Neill
04/08/08 17:02 Filed in: Additional Information
“There were ten thousand rebels round us, and they were as keen as a set of terriers round a rat-cage. About the second week of it our water gave out, and it was a question whether we could communicate with General Neill’s column, which was moving up-country.” (Henry Wood)
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Cantonments
04/08/08 17:01 Filed in: Additional Information
A military camp.
- historically a permanent military station in British India.
- ORIGIN mid 18th cent.: from French cantonnement, from cantonner ‘to quarter’.
Sherlock Holmes - Deductions
04/08/08 16:55 Filed in: Deductions
“Sorry to see that you’ve had the British workman in the house. He‘s a token of evil. Not the drains, I hope?” Read More...
Sherlock Holmes - Character Illustrations
04/08/08 16:51 Filed in: Character Illustrations
I handed him my pouch, and he seated himself opposite to me and smoked for some time in silence. I was well aware that nothing but business of importance would have brought him to me at such an hour, so I waited patiently until he should come round to it. Read More...
Mongoose
04/08/08 16:45 Filed in: Artifacts and Curiosities
Door key
04/08/08 16:44 Filed in: Artifacts and Curiosities
The key was missing from the door so it could not be opened from either side.
Heavy club
04/08/08 16:42 Filed in: Artifacts and Curiosities
Upon the floor, close to the body, was lying a singular club of hard carved wood with a bone handle.
Sherlock Holmes - Sayings
04/08/08 16:40 Filed in: Sayings
“She had flown to tea as an agitated woman will.”
“It’s every man‘s business to see justice done.”
“It’s every man‘s business to see justice done.”
Sherlock Holmes - Registration Agent
04/08/08 16:34 Filed in: Disguises and deceptions
In the character of a registration-agent I had a most interesting gossip with his landlady.
Punjab
04/08/08 16:30 Filed in: Locations
Henry Wood eventually returned to the Punjab after ascaping from his captors and earned a living doing conjuring tricks.
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Darjeeling
04/08/08 16:25 Filed in: Locations
Bhurtee
04/08/08 15:52 Filed in: Locations
Where Henry Wood's regiment was beseiged.
We were in India, then, in cantonments, at a place we’ll call Bhurtee.(Henry Wood)
We were in India, then, in cantonments, at a place we’ll call Bhurtee.(Henry Wood)
Hudson Street, Aldershot, Hampshire
04/08/08 15:47 Filed in: Locations
Here Nancy Barclay and Henry Wood accidentally met and recognised each other after thirty years. Henry Wood had lodgings in this street.
Aldershot, Hampshire
04/08/08 15:19 Filed in: Locations
Colonel Barclay was stationed in Aldershot and the tragedy took place there.
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Teddy
04/08/08 15:18 Filed in: Incidental Characters
A beautiful reddish-brown creature, thin and lithe, with the legs of a stoat, a long, thin nose, and a pair of the finest red eyes that ever I saw in an animal’s head.
Simpson
04/08/08 15:16 Filed in: Incidental Characters
One of Sherlock Holmes’ Baker Street Irregulars.
Miss Morrison
04/08/08 15:14 Filed in: Incidental Characters
Friend and neighbour of Mrs Barclay. Read More...
Jackson
04/08/08 15:12 Filed in: Incidental Characters
Mrs Watson suggested that Jackson would stand as locum for Dr Watson while he was away in Aldershot with Sherlock Holmes.
Coachman
04/08/08 15:09 Filed in: Incidental Characters
Coachman to Colonel and Mrs Barclay and the first to enter the room where the tragedy occurred.
Corporal Henry Wood
04/08/08 15:01 Filed in: Main Characters
He appeared to be deformed, for he carried his head low and walked with his knees bent. Read More...
Nancy Barclay/Devoy
04/08/08 14:58 Filed in: Main Characters
The daughter of a former colour-sergeant in the same corps. (Royal Munsters) Read More...
Colonel James Barclay
04/08/08 14:37 Filed in: Main Characters
He was a dashing, jovial old soldier in his usual mood, but there were occasions on which he seemed to show himself capable of considerable violence and vindictiveness.
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Mrs Watson
04/07/08 17:54 Filed in: Incidental Characters
Dr Watson’s wife. Formerly Miss Mary Morstan (Sign of Four).
Waterloo Station, London
02/07/08 16:21 Filed in: Locations
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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