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Лицей № 15 Заводского района г.Саратова

Topic: “Sherlock Holmes’ London”

(Лондон Шерлока Холмса)

Выполнила:

ученица 11 «Б» класса

Староверова Дарья

Руководитель:

Шурганова Н.С.

Саратов, 2017

Introduction:

Nowadays, tourism is one of the most fast-growing segments of economy. Every person wants to travel around the world and learn more about other countries. Some of them want to relax somewhere in Southern countries, another ones love to relax by seeing some attractions and find out more information about different cultures.

Problem:

Great Britain and especially its capital city London is Mecca for tourists who prefer sightseeing to lying on the beach. We used to associate London with such places as the Houses of Parliament, the Tower, the Buckingham palace and the others. To my point of view, there are plenty of other not so known sites that are worth visiting. Some of them are connected with famous British writers and their works.

Relevance:

London is one of the most visited cities in the world so all the traditional sites have become quite ordinary for tourists. That is why touristic companies are trying to create some new routes to attract people. One kind of the directions recently offered by them is a touristic route along the places connected with literature.

The aim:

To create a route with the sites connected with Sherlock Holmes stories that should attract tourists who are keen on English literature.

Tasks:

1. To learn about places connected with stories about Sherlock Holmes

2. To learn where these places are situated

3. To find out the information about these sightseeings in the stories about Sherlock Holmes

4. To create a new touristic route  

1. Lyceum Theatre

It was built in seventeen seventy one. Here, at the third column on the left, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson met Miss Morston to go to Tadeusz Sholto in the story “The Sign of the Four”.

 “At the Lyceum Theatre the crowds were already thick at the side-entrances. In front a continuous stream of hansoms and four-wheelers were rattling up, discharging their cargoes of shirt-fronted men and beshawled, bediamonded women. We had hardly reached the third pillar, which was our rendezvous, before a small, dark, brisk man in the dress of a coachman accosted us” - said in the story “The Sign of the Four”.

2. № 100 Strand.  Restaurant “Simpson’s in the Strand”

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson often visited this restaurant. They preferred to sit at a small table by the window and watch the rapid flow of life on the Strand - one of the most beautiful and busy streets in London.

The restaurant specializes in traditional English cuisine, especially on roast beef. The restaurant is located in the left wing of the building owned by the hotel Savoy.

“It was not possible for me to follow the immediate steps taken by my friend, for I had some pressing professional business of my own, but I met him by appointment that evening at Simpson's, where, sitting at a small table in the front window and looking down at the rushing stream of life in the Strand, he told me something of what had passed”- said in the story “the Adventure of the Illustrious Client”.

3. George Hy Harris’s Shop. № 418 Strand

At present there is a cafe.

Here, Sir Henry Baskerville bought a pair of shoes, which suffered such different fates: one was burned in the fireplace of the hotel Northumberland and the second was torn to shreds by the hound of the Baskervilles.

“Exactly”, said Holmes, “however foolish the incident may seem. You have lost one of your boots, you say? “

“Well, mislaid it, anyhow. I put them both outside my door last night, and there was only one in the morning. I could get no sense out of the chap who cleans them. The worst of it is that I only bought the pair last night in the Strand, and I have never had them on. “- said in the novel “The Hound of the Baskerville”.

4. Charing Cross Hospital at the corner of Strand, William IV St. and Agar St.

Currently - the district police station.

The wounded Sherlock Holmes was brought here after the attack of Baron Adalbert Gruner’s thugs in front of the Royal Café in the story “The Adventure of the Illustrious Client”:

“He was carried to Charing Cross Hospital and afterwards insisted upon being taken to his rooms in Baker Street”.

From the same hospital, as we know from the movie “The Hound of the Baskervilles”, Dr. Mortimer received his cane as a gift for the wedding day.

5. Charing Cross Hotel

Here in the hotel's smoking room on Saturday noon, Holmes set up a trap for the spy Hugo Oberstein and returned drawings of the Bruce Partington submarine to the British government in the story "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans":

“DEAR SIR:

“With regard to our transaction, you will no doubt have observed

by now that one essential detail is missing.  I have a tracing

which will make  it  complete.  This has involved me in extra

trouble, however,  and I must ask you for a further advance  of

five hundred pounds. I will not trust it to the post, nor will I

take anything but gold or notes. I would come to you abroad, but

it  would  excite  remark  if  I  left  the  country at present.

Therefore I shall expect to meet you in the smoking-room of the

Charing Cross Hotel at noon on Saturday.  Remember that only

English notes, or gold, will be taken.”

6. The former Northumberland Hotel, Now - the famous pub "Sherlock Holmes" (Sherlock Holmes Pub).Corner of Northumberland St. and Craven Passage.

Sir Henry Baskerville stayed at this hotel on his arrival in London, where he was visited by Dr. Mortimer, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson and where a pair of his shoes was stolen - a new one, just bought at George Harris's store.

“He laid an envelope upon the table, and we all bent over it. It was of common quality, grayish in colour. The address, “Sir Henry Baskerville, Northumberland Hotel,” was printed in rough characters; the post-mark “Charing Cross,” and the date of posting the preceding evening” - said in the novel “The Hound of the Baskervilles”.

Currently, there is a pub "Sherlock Holmes", a place of pilgrimage for admirers of the famous detective. Here in a cozy atmosphere, surrounded by portraits of actors playing Holmes and Watson, are stands with things belonging to a great detective or somehow connected with him (here there is even a handful of earth from the Reichenbach waterfall) and various other exhibits, such as the huge head of the Baskervilles’hound in the frame under the glass, also you can drink El «Sherlock Holmes», as well as visit the office of Holmes on the second floor.

7. Neville’s Turkish Baths. Craven Passage.

Take the narrow alley right around the corner of Sherlock Holmes’ pub and stop at the first door to the right. This is the former entrance to the women's section of the Turkish baths. The entrance to the men's department was somewhat farther and at the present time does not exist. This bath was often visited by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

“Both Holmes and I had a weakness for the Turkish bath. It was over a smoke in the pleasant lassitude of the drying-room that I have found him less reticent and more human than anywhere else. On the upper floor of the Northumberland Avenue establishment there is an isolated corner where two couches lie side by side.” - said in the story “The Adventure of the Illustrious Client”.

8. Scotland Yard, Great Scotland Yard Street

Here was the same police station where inspectors Lestrade, Gregson and Jones worked.Holmes is revered by the modern Scotland Yard. So, the abbreviation of the main search engine of the Ministry of Internal Affairs looks exactly like HOLMES. Police was settled at White Hall Place, 4 in 1829, but the entrance for visitors was located on the side of the Great Scotland Yard. Over some time, the building was too small for an increased number of policemen, and in 1967 they moved to a new one.

9. Criterion Restaurant (PiccadillyCircus).

In the bar of this restaurant, Dr. Watson, who had returned to London from India, met his friend, a former attendant, Stamford, who later introduced him to Sherlock Holmes.

“On the very day that I had come to this conclusion, I was standing at the Criterion Bar, when someone tapped me on the shoulder, and turning round I recognized young Stamford, who had been a dresser under me at Barts.” - said in the novel “A Study in Scarlet”.

10. Royal Café.  № 68 Regent Street

The Royal Café was opened in 1865. In the 1880s it was frequently visited by famous artists and writers, including Conan Doyle and Oscar Wilde.

At noon in front of this cafe, Sherlock Holmes was attacked by two men armed with sticks. The thugs disappeared, running out through the café’s back door on Glasshouse Street. Wounded Holmes was taken to Charingcross Hospital ("The Adventure of the Illustrious Client").

“We learn with regret that Mr. Sherlock Holmes, the well-known private detective, was the victim this morning of a murderous assault which has left him in a precarious position. There are no exact details to hand, but the event seems to have occurred about twelve o'clock in Regent Street, outside the Cafe Royal. The attack was made by two men armed with sticks, and Mr. Holmes was beaten about the head and body, receiving injuries which the doctors describe as most serious. He was carried to Charing Cross Hospital and afterwards insisted upon being taken to his rooms in Baker Street. The miscreants who attacked him appear to have been respectably dressed men, who escaped from the bystanders by passing through the Cafe Royal and out into Glasshouse Street behind it. No doubt they belonged to that criminal fraternity which has so often had occasion to bewail the activity and ingenuity of the injured man.”

11. Langham Hotel. Langham Pl.Between Regent St. And Portland Pl

The hotel was built in 1865 and soon became the center of public life in London. At the restaurant of this hotel in August 1889, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had lunch with an employee of the magazine "Lippincott's Monthly Magazine", who presented him to Oscar Wilde. Both writers made a deal with the magazine to publish their next novels. Conan Doyle was to write "The Sign of the Four", and Oscar Wilde - "Portrait of Dorian Gray." It is believed that in the character of Conan Doyle Tadeusz Sholto the features of the appearance and nature of Oscar Wilde are reflected, who responded to his new acquaintance having portrayed him in his character Alan Campbell.

“In the year 1878 my father, who was senior captain of his regiment, obtained twelve months' leave and came home. He telegraphed to me from London that he had arrived all safe, and directed me to come down at once, giving the Langham Hotel as his address”. “The Sign of the Four”.

Now the hotel has a "Conan Doyle Suite", which costs 720 ₤ per night.

12. № 21 Baker Street 

One of the addresses that is considered to be the prototype of No. 221-b in Baker Street. The original private residential building was demolished; and a currently existing office building was built (No. 19-35 by Baker Street).

The fact that this was the home of Holmes and Watson is also evidenced by the story of the friend of Conan Doyle, Dr. Morris. Once the writer asked him where he would advise him to put the character's apartment in his stories, and Dr Morris recommended No. 21 on Baker Street, where his father had once lived. Conan Doyle visited the house and decided that this address was suitable. He changed only the number, adding another two ahead, so as not to irritate the tenants, so the house became No. 221-b.

Conclusion:

In this work I have tried to explore the literary side of London.  During the creation of this project I’ve read many stories about Sherlock Holmes in the original and learnt a lot of information about London. I hope that my route will attract every tourist who is bored with traditional sites of London.

References:

http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~ina22/200/SH-Texts-9-Casebook-1-Illustrious-Client.htm

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/244/244-h/244-h.htm#link2HCH0001

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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2852/2852-h/2852-h.htm

http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/Arthur_Conan_Doyle/The_Adventure_of_the_Bruce_Partington_Plans/

http://www.strana-naoborot.com/2oth/holmes/sh1.htm

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