bob_brown

OK I am a Holmes buff. Is an hour long enough to do the museum on Baker Street justice?
Ok, so Doyle was only the agent for John Watson, MD, but as a boy I enjoyed the stories.

vcl

An hour should do it, plus 15 minutes for the gift shop. We're Holmes buffs, too, and have enjoyed visiting this little commercial gem for years.

mvor

The museum is fun for fans and an hour will be more than enough time. Be sure to read the letters in the guest book--some people still seek out his help. Afterwards, you could go to the Sherlock Holmes Hotel (108 Baker St.) for a drink (bypass the bar in front and head towards the back area where you'll find comfy sofas/chairs and two fireplaces). We stay here regularly and it's always fun to solve the riddle that they place on your pillow each night. Have a great time.

Robespierre

For hard-core fans: the entire corpus is available in e-books (dozens of 'em - all free) at

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/

SusanP

bob, In case you didn't know, there's also the Sherlock Holmes Pub just south of Trafalgar Square, I can look up the street tomorrow if you need it. Upstairs they have his study just as it would have looked that is pretty neat.

artstuff

bob -

We ate at the Sherlock Holmes Pub when we were in London and enjoyed the food and ambience. It's located at 10 Northumberland Street, just around the corner from Trafalgar Square.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote many of the Sherlock Holmes novels here when it was the Northumberland Hotel. There is a re-creation of his sitting room upstairs which was quite interesting to look at while we were waiting for our food to arrive.

If you are a Sherlock Holmes buff, then I would definately recommend a visit. Peace. >-

Robyn

socialworker

HI--we thoroughly enjoyed both a trip to the museum on Baker Street and dinner one evening at the Sherlock Holmes Pub. Yes, an hour is fine. As I recall, the museum is quite small but very engaging.

jjblack

YES AN HOUR SHOULD BE ENOUGH TIME AND DONT FORGET TO HAVE YOUR PICTURE TAKEN WITH HIS HAT ON AND HOLDING HIS PIPE. BY THE WAY YOUR ALSO IN THE SAME NEIGHBORHOOD AS THE WAX MUSUEM AND THE PLANATERIUM. BY TICKETS FOR BOTH THE LINE IS SHORTER THAN JUST THE ONE FOR THE WAX MUSUEM

bob_brown

The pub dinner is a great idea. Nor did I know that his "study" was upstairs at the pub. I will need to eat, so that should be sufficient reason to go there.
I will remember it: 10 Northumberland Street, near Trafalgar.

I am sure we will want to go by there and pay our respects to the most decorated man in London.

Rather than having my picture taken, I am going to buy one of those hats. At my age, who cares what people think. Just a harmless old eccentric on a funny hat.

I would buy the pipe, too, but I gave up soking years ago.

I was a real Holmes buff at one time, and someone gave me the complete set of all the short stories and novels. I think the first novel I read cover to cover was The Hound of the Baskervilles. Even today, I find The Valley of Fear to be an intriguing tale. One has to get in the proper mindset and remember that Holmes did not have the luxury of a motor taxi or the telephone.

I still am amazed at how the guy disguised as an old woman in A Study in Scarlet was able to jump out of the cab, with Holmes perched on the back, without Holmes sensing a major change in weight within the cab.

My big disappointment was when I viewd the Falls of the Reichenbach near Meiringen Switzerland. We were there in August and the falls were a trickle

The little museum in Meiringen is quite well done, with recordings in umpteen languages to tell the viewer about it.

But the Gemmi Pass in Switzerland is a thrill. We were up by the Daubensee when a sleet and snow storm closed in.
It was ok, we were equipped with the right boots and rain gear.

ira

Hi Bob,

>Is an hour long enough to do the museum on Baker Street justice?<

I think that that is about right.

We also enjoyed the Pub.

If you go to the Knight's Bar at Simpson's in the Strand, you can sit at the same window where Holmes and Watson "sitting at a small table in the front window and [looked] down at the rushing stream of life in the Strand".

Trelawney Hope

bob_brown

That was one of the more improbably of the Holmes stories. It all hung in there until the end when Holmes told the PM of Britain that he was not going to tell him how the letter came to be back in the brief case.

Can you imagine that scenario today.
A young woman being blackmailed by a girlish love letter? Egads how times have changed.

At least Lestrade knew how to bully a subordinate with a big fat lie and have no compunctions about. One glace at that drugget and he knew it had been tampered with??

Good ruse by Holmes to get at the secret hiding place.

By the way, do we ever lean if Inspector Lestrade has a first name?