Northumberland Avenue is a wide, leafy thoroughfare.
The well-known Sherlock Holmes pub.
Charing Cross Station now does not look very different to Holmes’ day when it was the scene for the coup de grâce in The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans.
The Strand: Holmes and Watson knew this grand street very well and it features in a number of stories (see text).
The Adelphi today – the scene of theatrical and financial triumph for Conan Doyle (as it had been for Dickens before him).
Simpson’s – Holmes and Watson dined here sometimes, as in The Adventure of the Illustrious Client.
The Strand leads into Fleet Street which in Holmes’ time was the headquarters of major newspapers and magazines.
’The Cheese’ was known to many literary greats through the centuries, including Conan Doyle who spoke here to honour Dr Johnson in October 1926 (see text).
Could Pope’s Court – The Red-headed League – have been an alley around here?
St Paul’s Cathedral rises magnificently over Ludgate Hill at the end of this walk: ‘the last rays of the sun were gilding the cross on the summit of St Paul’s’ (The Sign of Four).