#221 Baker Street

[Carol the Dabbler]

Not sure exactly if this goes here, but here is a collection of the newspaper covers shown in Sherlock.

 

http://cumbercougars.tumblr.com/post/145923051299/rox712-the-newspapers-at-the-sherlocked-props

That is cool, putting them all in one place. I can't seem to enlarge them, though, at least not on my cell phone. So I can't read them, which seriously limits their usefulness.

[J.P.]

Putting the link here:
http://mid0nz.tumblr.com/post/153904555534/does-the-world-really-need-me-to-annotate-yet

Another tresure chest from mid0nz - about the set and what's there :D

[J.P.]

And another one

http://mid0nz.tumblr.com/post/146410605694/mid0nz-have-a-derren-brown-easter-egg-from-the

[besleybean]

Love Derren.

[J.P.]

Ohhh, I love this woman!

 

http://mid0nz.tumblr.com/post/39500128017/the-most-beautiful-object-on-the-221b-set-if-you

 

 

The Most Beautiful Object on the 221B Set

If you follow me, you know how obsessed I am with the binoculars on Sherlock’s desk. I’ve managed to acquire several pair from Paris. It turns out that they were designed in 1897 by León Bloch who in 1912, with Edmund Bloch, invented “Le Sherlock Holmes,” a stealth camera disguised as a small briefcase!

León Bloch later sold the Mars binoculars by subscription as part of his Viallis package. The lenses of the pliable Mars binos were snapped in place on a box which was a stereoscopic camera, as well as a viewer for both stereoscopic glass slides, and paper cards.

A prestigious London firm, Leuchars & Son sold the French-manufactured Mars binos (called La Jumelle “Mars” in adverts) in the UK. Their storefront was located in Piccadilly until 1902.

 

I start to believe Arwel is the biggest SH fan of them all.

[J.P.]

Dunno, maybe we could change the title of theis thread because now we have also John's flat to oggle.

Didn't have time to inhale it all, just dropping the link for now, so I don't forget it:

 

http://nixxie-fic.tumblr.com/post/155385102109/pt-1-of-5-brand-new-pics-hq-screencaps-from

 

It's funny how John's flat literally mirrors 221b. It is deliberate, sure, but maybe there will be more… wait a minute!

 

Does anyone remember that setlock tweet from Arwel, showing some walls from both flats, writing about things getting mixed or mingled?

 

[J.P.]

Hell, cannot find the post. But I know there was something. No time to go to my PM though.

[J.P.]

Holymotherofgod!

I swear, someone is trying to kill me by information overload. My brain is going to boil. Click at your own risk :o

 

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5262463,-0.1368955,3a,75y,201.26h,92.4t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1se9D1CQ30Vc8AAAQvxR-JIQ!2e0!3e2!7i13312!8i6656

[Arcadia]

 

Another example of someone having wayyyyy too much time on their hands... :d

[J.P.]

They are soooo messing with our brains.

Maybe we should order a big batch of those jackets, so they can be produced and shipped from China.

 

ACD is watching you!

[J.P.]

For the nitpickers and non-JL-conspiracy theorists :D

https://twitter.com/DrWhoOnline/status/818869303617404931

[Arcadia]

Huh?

[J.P.]

Behind the magnifying glass you can read the word Torchwood. Didn't Arwel work for this?

[J.P.]

And here is an article abou it. http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2017-01-10/did-you-spot-the-torchwood-easter-egg-in-sherlock

[Arcadia]

Ah, that was the problem ... I couldn't make out what the letters spelled. Well, actually, I couldn't even make out that they were letters.

[J.P.]

And you thought WE were crazy. :/

[J.P.]

An now a flash of madness from me.

This is a comparison of the smilie I photographed at Sherlocked and the one from StreetView

They are NOT the same. Very, very similar but not the same (look at the eye right to see the difference). What is amazing, that they put so much effort to make them look alike.

 

[Arcadia]

Well, they know people like you are out looking for things like that.... :P

 

And yet, in another instance, they can't get a date right ...

[J.P.]

…and then they wonder why conspiracy theories grow like weeds.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Comments on Sets and Locations for Series 4 have been split off into their own thread. It's in the Locations subforum. Could somebody please post a link?

 

Here it is! -- Arcadia

http://www.sherlockforum.com/forum/topic/3585-spoilers-sets-and-locations-for-series-4/?do=findComment&comment=117812

Edited February 11, 2017 by Arcadia
added link as requested

[Carol the Dabbler]

As I was climbing my own stairs earlier today, I was absent-mindedly counting the steps, and then got to wondering how one is supposed to count steps.  For example, in this diagram:

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... how many steps are there?  Does one count only the two steps that have their own little private "floors," or does one also count each of the adjoining floors as steps, or only one of them?

My actual point being, when Holmes says there are 17 steps leading up to his flat, what precisely does that mean?  And when the Moftisses attempted to replicate those stairs, did they do it in the way Doyle intended?

[J.P.]

I would say a step has its own face/wall/vertical part. In your case, it's 3. You also have to make 3 Steps, each of them bringing you a bit higher.

[Carol the Dabbler]

2 hours ago, J.P. said:

I would say a step has its own face/wall/vertical part. In your case, it's 3. You also have to make 3 Steps, each of them bringing you a bit higher.

That's kinda what I was thinking, you count the risers (at least that's what they call the vertical faces over here), because that part corresponds to your own stepping up.

I'm still willing to believe that there may be other definitions, though.  Anybody?

And -- in keeping with the topic of this thread -- does anyone have a nice clear shot of the stairs on the Sherlock set, so we can count those steps?  Or failing that, a video clip of someone climbing the entire set of stairs?

[Artemis]

I would say 3 as well.

 

[Arcadia]

There's a bend in the stairs, isn't there? I'm guessing there's no way to find an angle where you could see all the steps at once.