Слайд 2In the 1880s a young doctor sat waiting for new patients who
never came. To pass the time, he wrote stories about a man who was very good at solving crimes.
Слайд 3These stories were so popular that the doctor decided to give up
medicine and become a writer instead. The doctor was Arthur Conan Doyle and his' creation was Sherlock Holmes.
Слайд 4Holmes and his famous friend Doctor Watson shared rooms at 221b Baker
Street.
Слайд 5Their landlady was the long-suffering Mrs. Hudson. She had to put up
with strange visitors, revolver practice indoors, chemical experiments and late-time violin playing.
Слайд 6In 1990, a museum was at last opened at 221b Baker Street,
though it should have happened long ago. After all, 221b Baker Street is the worlds most famous address and people have been writing to it for more than 100 years.
Слайд 7Everything in the museum reminds us of the stories we know so
well. It is filled with things which Holmes and Watson would have had — Holmes' violin, his deerstalker and pipe, the Persian slipper in which he kept his tobacco, unanswered letters pinned to the wall with a knife, his magnifying glass.
Слайд 8The Sherlock Holmes' Museum is unlike other museums. Very little here is
locked up in glass cases. You can sit in Holmes' s armchair by the fireplace, you can examine his things and put on his deerstalker. But please bring your own pipe to smoke!