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Back in 2019 the day after Christmas He-Man, myself, and Big Baby Boy headed to London for a little British Christmas and New Year’s fun.
Early one morning while on our way to…I’ve forgotten which museum we were heading to I spotted this pub and stopped for a quick photo. While the doors are open I’m not really sure if it was open or not. Don’t you love the flower baskets of greenery?
I did a quick online search to see if there was any information about the pub and found this,
“”The Sherlock Holmes pub is a traditional English pub serving pints and pub food. As well as a bar and restaurant, the pub has a secret – a complete recreation of Holmes and Watson’s study and sitting room with a large collection of objects and photographs related to the characters from the books and adaptations. The collection was put together for the Festival of Great Britain and moved to this permanent home at the Sherlock Holmes pub in 1957.” ~https://www.visitlondon.com/things-to-do/place/48927-sherlock-holmes-pub”.
I wish we had gone back this route and stopped in for a drink and lunch! I would have loved to see that interior now that I know what it is.
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Even if you did not get to go inside – this is a great share – and I would love to see the inside maybe someday too – and what a cool idea for a pub
Thank you! Let’s hope we can travel more easily soon and go to London again and visit the pub. 😀
yes – let’s hope that – ugh – and end this blah phase
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You did a good job of capturing that shot, it show the pride in ownership I would think. This photo has got to grab anyone attention that has ever been to a European country. I think some real cobblestones in the street would make it prefect!
Thank you so much, John!! Cobblestone would be perfect wouldn’t it.
Hello. Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. There’s a pub named after him there. I ate dinner at that pub a few years ago. Anyway, that’s my Sherlock Holmes connection. See ya.
How cool! Scotland is on my bucket list! Thanks for sharing this with me. 😀🎄
Have a nice day
Sherlock Holmes is a great pub. Went there back in 2009 – fish and chips were excellent.
Thanks for that recommendation, Jason!! I hope to get an opportunity to return to try it.
Ye Ol Cheshire Cheese is another great pub with a lot of great literary history.
Oh, thank you for that recommendation as well! 😀
What a pretty establishment … what one might imagine when thinking of an English pub. Now you have to go back to try it out!
I’m longing for the time we can travel easily again!
Wow! I would love to go there.
Me too! One day I hope we both get that chance.
That would be great!
That’s so cool! I love the Sherlock Holmes books and the series was wonderful as well. They truly lucked out by finding such a beautiful building! I hope you enjoyed your stay there!
Thank you so much! We had a grand time while there, thank you!! This was a neat find. I hope someday I get to go back and go inside it for a drink and food.
I love this, Deborah! I can only imagine how wonderful it must be inside with the memorabilia. The outside is a picture perfect doors post. Thank you!
Thank you, Jennie! 😀
You’re welcome!
What a fun front Deborah! While I’m writing this down, am thinking, with so many people reacting to your post, you could start a challenge of your own! Ever thought about it? Enjoy your December month! Thanks for the comment on painting in front of an audience. It’s a great outlet of creativity:)
Thank you so much, Jesh! No, I’ve never thought of starting a challenge of my own.
We loved the different pubs in London also, they have a class of their own. I loved that I could easily get a pint of Guinness with your meal there, as it is not much available here. That is a lovely memory to cherish Deborah, we never got to have Christmas there as we visited in summer.
I’ve never been there in the Summer. Only Winter and Fall. I haven’t been to too many pubs either, but we did have some really good German beer there that we can’t get here in the States. It’s always a treat to try something new.
Ahh! I also passed it by, didn’t enter, and only learned of the secret later. 🙂 We must return, together. 😉 Find my photo here: https://manjameximexcessive6.wordpress.com/2021/11/08/lens-artists-pc-london-calling/
Yes, let’s meet up in London and have lunch or dinner at the Sherlock Holmes!! Let’s do all of London together as one big photowalk!!!
That would be pretty epic en mon avis. 😀
I may be the only Londoner reading this and very probably the only one who has been familiar with the Sherlock Holmes pub for the best part of 50 years. So please forgive me for the following.
The bar is excellent with many “mementoes” and “relics” of Sherlock’s adventures. But when I climbed the stairs I found that the dining room includes the replica of the study at 221B. Marvelous.
The pub is just off Northumberland Avenue and was formerly the Northumberland Arms. As I recall it, Holmes and Watson first met ?Sir Henry Baskerville at the Northumberland Hotel. So that is a link of a kind. In the 1951 festival of Britain the collection was displayed in the Big office building occupying the site of 221B.
“Theme” pubs were more common in the 1970s. There was another just a few hundred yards from the Sherlock Holmes dedicated to the works of Gilbert and Sullivan and.a favorite of mine which evoked the days of sail called “The Square Rigger” on the City side of London Bridge.
There are many (genuinely) historic pubs in London, but the only one which is a grade I listed building is the “George at Southwark”. This is (part of) a galleried coachinginn rebuilt in 1677 and referred to in the works of Dickens.
Thank you for prompting all that and the personal memories that go with it.
Jim Stokoe aka Jim529.
Oh, Jim! You’re always welcome here!! Thank you so much for all this rich information about the pub, and other pubs in London!
On another trip to London I took an excursion out to Stonehenge and on the way back we stopped at an ancient pub for dinner. I thought it was called the George. I’ll have to dig through my archives to find it. Dinner was a simple roasted chicken meal, but the pub was wonderful full of huge beams, and wood everywhere. 😀
Cheers. That sounds plausible. Inside, everything slopes one way or the other and all the wood is painted black.Just south of London Bridge.
No, it wasn’t the same George. I’ll have to dig through my achieves and find my image of it.
Thanks for the additional information, Jim. When I was in London many, many years ago, I visited the Cheshire Cheese, as I was familiar with that from reading books set in London. Deborah, that pub is lovely, so thanks for sharing it. Looks like a great place for a beer and some pub food.
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Thank you so much, Janet! It definitely is worth a visit. I have a photographer friend who told me yesterday it was “her local” on their last trip to London as their hotel was very close to it. She would go back she says. That’s a good recommendation en mon avis! 😀
I agree.
Oh these English pubs: makes me long for “a pint of bitter!”
😀 I hope you get one!
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Wonderful photo of the pub, Deborah! I hope you get back before too long.
Thank you so much, Belinda!
I would have had to pop inside right then and there because of the windows! 🤭
Well, if I was by myself or with a different group…like photographers or birders I probably would have!! 😂Thank you so much, Cheryl! The family probably just gave it passing glance. 🤷♀️
Lovely doors and pub; I guess you officially say, mystery solved (Watson) with the help of Wikipedia!😉
LOL! That’s clever, Gordon!! 😂
How cool! Next time I’m in London I’ll go look for the Sherlock Holmes. Elementary my dear Watson. 🙂
Thank you so much, Peter! I hope I can return soon too without the Covid worry and travel restrictions. I’d like to check out the pub interior and food too.
Such a lovely place, Deborah. Thanks for sharing.
Pretty neat find I thought for Thursday Doors too. Thanks so much, John!
Yes it is.
Great photo
Thank you so much, Sheree!
You’re very welcome
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Wonderful to see this classic English pub, Deborah. Sounds like a fun place inside, too.
Thank you so much, Jet! Hopefully, I’ll get back there to find out how it looks on the inside too.
These are wonderful doors, Deborah, and such an interesting pub. If I make it back to London I will seek this out, for sure. I look forward to when we can travel again without worry or complications. For now, thank you for joining us at Thursday Doors and I hope you enjoy the holiday season with your family.
Thank you so much, Dan! I too will look for it when I return…should that opportunity arise. I hope so!
I hope you and yours enjoy the holiday season as well. 🎄
This is EXACTLy what I think London should look like~thank you for confirming my fantasies! :). 🙂
Thank you, Melissa! I’m happy to oblige. 🥰
Any idea why the owners chose that name? As a teenager I read every single Sherlock Holmes story Arthur Conan Doyle wrote. I was sorry to finish the last one, knowing there’d never be another.
I think I’ve read them all as well, as well as seen every movie. No, it didn’t say why they chose the name, but one can imagine they did because the character is iconic London.
That brings up a long forgotten memory. On my first trip to London back in 2003 there were two addresses I had to find and did. 221B Baker St. and N0 10 Downing Street. Just seeing them was exciting! 😀
LOVE the building and for sure the greenery. That was one of my favorite memories of my visit – window boxes just bursting with boxwoods or flowers. Thanks for the smile.
Thank you, Judy! Mine too. Can you believe in December there were still some tiny flowers in bloom in some of those box and baskets!
We’ve still got wildflowers blooming in central Texas, but that’s way further south than London. Hanging outside a pub, those flowers were in good spirits.
LOL!! Good one! 😂
There’s nothing like a spirited reply.
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