The docks’ gates also became the entrance to ‘Pentonville Prison’, where Holmes and Watson are subsequently incarcerated. The ‘London’ docks, where a ship is being built – and gets prematurely launched– was filmed at Chatham Historic Dockyard in Kent. The crowded working-class streets of the capital were filmed in central Manchester, on Little Lever Street, Bunsen Street, Mangle Street and Back Piccadilly. Another screen favourite, look out for its gloriously decayed Victorian extravagance in GoldenEye, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, David Cronenberg’s Eastern Promises and Stormbreaker. Lord Blackwood appears to have risen from the Blackwood family vault in Brompton Cemetery, Old Brompton Road, Earl’s Court. The adaptable complex has also been seen in Tom Hooper’s hugely successful film of Les Misérables, The Madness Of King George, Four Weddings And A Funeral, Thor: The Dark World, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, The Mummy Returns The Duchess, Young Victoria, Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, The Music Lovers and many other productions. Vasily Livanov: Sherlock Holmes and Dr.Sherlock Holmes film location: the streets of Central London: Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London SE10Īnother location from The Bounty supplied the elegant streets of central London, the grounds of the Old Royal Naval College, King William Walk, London SE10. Holmes uses his London home till he retires from the profession of the consulting detective – after that he moves to the lovely countryside of Sussex for keeping bees.Ģ21 B Baker Street in the different adaptations: But his papers were my great crux.” (The Musgrave Ritual)
#SHERLOCK HOLMES ADDRESS FULL#
Our chambers were always full of chemicals and of criminal relics which had a way of wandering into unlikely positions, and of turning up in the butter-dish or in even less desirable places. done in bullet-pocks, I felt strongly that neither the atmosphere nor the appearance of our room was improved by it. I have always held, too, that pistol practice should be distinctly an open-air pastime and when Holmes, in one of his queer humours, would sit in an armchair with his hair-trigger and a hundred Boxer cartridges and proceed to adorn the opposite wall with a patriotic V. „But with me there is a limit, and when I find a man who keeps his cigars in the coal-scuttle, his tobacco in the toe end of a Persian slipper, and his unanswered correspondence transfixed by a jack-knife into the very centre of his wooden mantelpiece, then I begin to give myself virtuous airs. Watson describes the home of his friend as follows: He can distinguish his files by the thickness of dust covering them. Maybe his motto is that only fools keep their things in order, geniuses reign over chaos. Conan Doyle’s famous detective is a master of making mess. It is a well-known fact that 17 stairs lead to the flat of Holmes. Short:īy clicking on the picture you can see a larger version of it. The following picture was made by Ernest H. The Strand Magazine published the plan of 221 B Baker Street in its special issue in 1950, based on the pictures of the famous Holmes illustrator, Sidney Paget – though it slightly differs from the descriptions found in Doyle’s novels.
Filmmakers sometimes do not pay attention to the proper use of the deerstalker, but luckily the flat is stylish most of the time. Thanks to this kind of mysticism the detective’s place is different in every adaptation. This is their first confrontation, which is a duel of tense words: a true intellectual and moral fight.Ĭonan Doyle gives no complete description of Sherlock’s home, we only get details from the various adventures. Holmes meets his enemy, Professor James Moriarty at Baker Street for the first time. In addition, when a hot-tempered visitor arrives and attacks the sleuth, his flat changes to battlefield. Naturally there are cases which Sherlock solves while sitting at home. Robert Downey Jr.’s Holmes tests his disguises in the living-room. He greets his clients in his living-room, and it is the very place where he stores his criminal register. The king of detectives uses his home as an office and as a laboratory. Hudson, who always exclaims against calling her a housekeeper in the BBC series. The consulting detective lives on the first floor, while the doctor lodges on the second.
221 B BAKER STREET - THE HOME OF SHERLOCK HOLMESĪuthor: SherlockExtra - Translator: RevatiĮveryone knows the address of the world’s most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes: 221 B Baker Street, London.
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