Fiction    From 1886 

Sherlock Holmes

Originally named Sheridan Hope, then Sherringford Holmes and finally Sherlock Holmes. Created by Arthur Conan Doyle, the first story was begun in 1886.

The Festival of Britain had an exhibition especially about Holmes which you can still see.

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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Sherlock Holmes

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221b Sherlock Holmes

221b Sherlock Holmes, consulting detective, 1881 - 1904.

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Holmes & Watson - Barts

The incident commemorated takes place in the first Sherlock Holmes story "A S...

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Holmes & Watson - Criterion

Here, New Years Day, 1881, at the Criterion Long Bar, Stamford, dresser at Ba...

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Holmes & Watson - Criterion - lost

The presence of Sherlock Holmes at this unveiling is rather misleading since ...

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Saville Theatre - Holmes

Ornamental Passions thinks this probably represents Tod Slaughter in the role...

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James Bond

James Bond

Fictional spy created by Ian Fleming, who first appeared in the novel 'Casino Royale', but see Fleming's page for an alternative origin for Bond. Eleven further novels and two short story collectio...

Fiction, Espionage, Fictional, Seriously Famous

1 memorial
Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist

One of the best known novels of Charles Dickens, which follows the fate of an orphaned workhouse boy. It has been filmed several times, and was turned into the stage musical (and later film) Oliver...

Fiction, Fictional

1 memorial
Friday

Friday

Character in the novel Robinson Crusoe. In the picture Friday is grovelling to Crusoe.

Fiction, Fictional

1 memorial
Mother Goose

Mother Goose

The interment register at St Olaves Hart Street records Mother Goose being buried on 14 September 1586. This is extremely strange so we did some digging.  The story of a goose laying golden eggs ca...

Fiction, Animals, Fictional

1 memorial
Les Miserables the musical

Les Miserables the musical

Originated in France as an album and then briefly as a show. Cameron Mackintosh got hold of it and the English show opened at the Barbican Centre in 1985.  Moved first to the Palace and then on 3 A...

Media, Fictional, Music / songs, Theatre

1 memorial

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C. Bowles
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
C. A. Whitford

C. A. Whitford

Surbiton man killed serving in WW1.

Person

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
T. Marshall

T. Marshall

Surbiton man killed serving in WW1.

Person

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
R. H. Pearson

R. H. Pearson

Surbiton man killed serving in WW2.

Person

War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Luke Puddy
1 memorial