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The organisation was succeeded by the Sherlock Holmes Society of London, founded in 1951 [34] by a group of five people who organised the Sherlock Holmes exhibition at the 1951 Festival of Britain, including Freda Howlett, who was at one time the last surviving founder; she remained a member until her death nearly seventy years later in 2020 ...
In 1934, the Sherlock Holmes Society (in London) and the Baker Street Irregulars (in New York) were founded. The latter is still active. The Sherlock Holmes Society was dissolved later in the 1930s, but was succeeded by a society with a slightly different name, the Sherlock Holmes Society of London, which was founded in 1951 and remains active.
The Sherlock Holmes is a Victorian-themed public house in Northumberland Street near Charing Cross railway station and Trafalgar Square which contains a large collection of memorabilia related to the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. [1] [2] The original collection was put together for display in Baker Street in London during the Festival of ...
221B Baker Street is the London address of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, created by author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.In the United Kingdom, postal addresses with a number followed by a letter may indicate a separate address within a larger, often residential building.
Sitting room on 1st floor of the museum. The address 221B was the subject of a protracted dispute between the museum and the nearby Abbey National building. Since the 1930s, the Royal Mail had been delivering mail addressed to Sherlock Holmes to the Abbey National Bank, [7] and they had employed a special secretary to deal with such correspondence.
Mycroft Holmes (right), co-founder of the Diogenes Club (depicted here in 221B Baker Street), illustrated by Sidney Paget. The Diogenes Club is a fictional gentlemen's club created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and featured in several Sherlock Holmes stories, such as 1893's "The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter".
Two 'New' Holmes Stories, in The Daily Californian (January 14, 1969), pages 1 and 11. The Field Bazaar, in The Victorian Cricket Match (Sherlock Holmes Society of London, 2001), pages 1–3. The Field Bazaar, in The Green Bag Almanac & Reader (Green Bag Press, 2016), pages 370–371, 519–520.
The Baker Street Irregulars is an organization of Sherlock Holmes enthusiasts founded in 1934 by Christopher Morley. [2] As of 2015, the nonprofit organization had about 300 members worldwide. [ 3 ]