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Sherlock Holmes Society

Categories: Literature

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Sherlock Holmes Society

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Holmes & Watson - Criterion

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

Sherlock Holmes statue

{On the plinth - front:} The great detective. {On the plinth - left:} This...

The Langham Hotel

The plaque was unveiled by the writer and former MP Gyles Brandreth.

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The Village in the Jungle

Novel written by Leonard Woolf, published 1913, based on his experiences as a colonial civil servant in British-controlled Ceylon, but unusually written from the native point of view.

Fiction, Literature, Sri Lanka

1 memorial

Robert Honey Fabian was born in Lewisham. He joined the police in 1921 and rose to the rank of Detective Superintendent in the Metropolitan Police. We wonder if he managed to keep his middle name s...

Person, Emergency Services, Literature

1 memorial

Henry Williamson

Writer. Born at 66 Braxfield Road, Brockley. His best known work, 'Tarka the Otter' was published in 1927. He attended the Nuremberg rally in Berlin and saw Adolf Hitler as a source of good for his...

Person, Literature, Germany

1 memorial

Olive Schreiner

Author, campaigner against war, against racism and for womans' vote. Best remembered for her 1883 novel, 'The Story of an African Farm'. Born in South Africa. Named Olive Emilie Albertina Schrei...

Person, Gender Issues, Literature, Peace, Race Issues, South Africa

1 memorial

Edgar Wallace

Prolific writer: crime, novels, journalism, plays films. Born 7 Ashburnham Grove, Greenwich to an unmarried mother. Adopted by a Billingsgate fish porter and wife. Aged 18 joined the army medical...

Person, Cinema, Journalism / Publishing, Literature, Theatre

2 memorials

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Joiners' and Ceilers' Hall

First recorded in 1375 as the Guild of St. James, Garlickhythe, the Worshipful Company of Joiners and Ceilers was granted a charter by Queen Elizabeth I in 1571. 'Ceilers' work in wood so this is ...

Building, Liveries & Guilds

1 memorial