’…and found myself at about six o’clock at the Oxford Street end of Park Lane’. In The Adventure of the Empty House, Watson stood here as he contemplated the shooting of young Ronald Adair and bumped into an elderly, deformed man who dropped some books. (Photograph by Daniel Tink)
This is the bar in Piccadilly, now a restaurant, where Watson dropped in for a drink while looking in vain for affordable London accommodation. Here, he met young Stamford who suggested meeting another friend of his who was also looking for a flat-share – the friend happened to be Sherlock Holmes.
The famous statue in Piccadilly commonly known as Eros – actually called the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain – and designed by Alfred Gilbert which is close to the Café Royal where Holmes was set upon in The Adventure of the Illustrious Client.