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Thursday, May 31, 2012


Undershaw around 1900. Doyle's children, Mary and Kingsley, are on the driveway.

Sherlock Holmes fans can heave a sigh of relief. Undershaw, the Grade II listed building near Haslemere in Surrey where Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote 13 of the Holmes stories, and that had since fallen into disrepair, has been reprieved from planned development. From The Guardian:

In 2010, Waverley borough council