In Sherlock’s Footsteps. Guided Walk: Conan Doyle’s Portsmouth.

Date: 22nd September
Time: 14.00
Location: Meet outside A Bar, 58 White Hart Road, PO1 2JA
Cost: £15

Matt Wingett invites you to walk the streets that young Arthur Conan Doyle walked 140 years ago. You’ll meet at the Landport Gate and take a walk through Old Portsmouth to Southsea. On the way Matt will tell you some of his adventures in the town and you’ll discover:

• where he got into a bout of fisticuffs on his first day
• the site where the real Dr Watson once lived
• why he was involved in real deaths, a stabbing and disasters in the city
• the pub where he attended an inquest
• how the town gave him place names for his characters
• the place where he met his wife to be
• how tragedy threw him and his first wife together
• the place where he met his “Platonic mistress”
• where he spent his last night before leaving the town in 1890

Book here.