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The binternational Sherlock Holmes company stands behind the establishment of this little museum dedicated to sir Artur Conan Doyles famous and dearly beloved nosy parker, one of the worldlitterature first detectivesshapes. Holmes famous flat in Baker Street is here reconstructed with his personal properties and souvenirs from some of his biggest cases. Readers of the stories by Sherlock Holmes will remember, that Holmesīcorrect address is 221b Baker Street but that housenumber hase never existed. On the other hand there is a memorial tabtet on the facade of Abbey National bank, where the house should have seen Abbey National has a fulltime person employed in order to have a look at the huge number of letters from all over the globe addressed to Holmes.
All the enthusialic readers of the stories by Sherlock Holmes can be able to share a room and eat together with there idolīs spirit. Sherlock Holmesī Pub, is completely devoted to the detective, the walls are covered by Holmesī souvenirs, and a room next to the restaurant on the first floor is a reconstruction of Holmesī study room with a wax figure of Sherlock reading a number of the Times in his armchair in front of the fire place. Sir Arthut Conan Doyle came as a matter of fact in the pub and mentions it in Baskervilles Hund under its earlier name, Northhumberland Hotel. The courses on the menu refers to the stories by Holmes, and the same does the decorations in Sherlock Holmes Hotel, where to you can draw retire appropriate after dinner.
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