IN SHERLOCK’S FOOTSTEPS - Guided Walk of Conan Doyle's Portsmouth

Schedule

Mon, 22 Sep, 2025 at 02:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Portsmouth Museum & Art Gallery | Portsmouth, EN

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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
GUIDED WALK INFO:
DATE: 22nd September 2025
Meeting point: Outside Portsmouth City Museum
When: 2pm Eventbrite Link
Tickets: £15
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