We will meet in front of the Wilkins building of
University College (where some believe Dr Watson studied medicine) and wander,
in the footsteps of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, through some of the obscure
byways of Bloomsbury as well as the principal thoroughfares of the West End
before finishing outside the Sherlock Holmes Public House (near to Charing
Cross).
The Walk will visit sites
mentioned in the following stories:
A Case of Identity;
A Scandal in Bohemia;
A Study in Scarlet;
His Last Bow;
Hound of the Baskervilles;
The Abbey Grange;
The Blue Carbuncle;
The Bruce Partington Plans;
The Copper Beeches;
The Dancing Men;
The Dying Detective;
The Final Problem;
The Illustrious Client;
The Man with the Twisted Lip;
The Missing Three-Quarter;
The Musgrave Ritual;
The Red Circle;
The Sign of (The) Four;
Wisteria Lodge.
At the end of the walk, participants
may like to dine (at their own expense) in the first floor restaurant where
members of the Sherlock Holmes Society of London have recreated Holmes and
Watson's sitting room at 221B Baker street.
The restaurant offers a range
of meat, fish and vegetarian dishes and
some reasonable beer.