Our hardy group shares the love of the "grand illusion" and the comraderie that comes from braving the foggy streets of London to climb the 17 stairs at 221B Baker Street and sit by the fire with Holmes and Watson. The pleasures are many and we welcome anyone with the passion for these armchair adventures. Come join us and toast the Master and his supporting cast. Denizen Tales

The Canon

Smithsonian Article: Sherlock Holmes' London

Enjoy the Smithsonian video of Holmes performers below:

 

 

The Denizens meet regularly on a biannual basis.

The Fall Meeting was held on Saturday, October 24th of 2009

 

Our Spring Meeting on April 24th of 2010 at Bistro Poplar will be all it can be as the fog rolls in and shrouds that third hansom whose passenger is so familiar to us all. Festivities begin at 6 PM with a cash bar followed by an evening of Sherlockian entertainment.

Directions to the Bistro are here.

Your invitation to the April 24th meeting is just a click away. The Denizens' logo below is your ticket to fun and adventure, click it and join us as Holmes and Watson investigate another conundrum.

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Bookmark us and visit from time to time to see what new things our scion is investigating. In the meantime if you're looking for things Sherlockian visit our Disjecta Membra page and browse.

Listen to the story of The Man With the Twisted Lip with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce

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 I Hear Of Sherlock Everywhere....The Scott Monty Podcast

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William Gillette as Sherlock Holmes

The Canon	Junior Denizens of the Bar of Gold	The Bar of Gold
Baker Street Blog	The Baker Street Irregulars Trust	221Blog:Questioning the Canon
Disjecta Membra	Wikipedia - Sherlock Holmes	Laurie King on Holmes
Sherlock Holmes-Paranormal Investigator	The Sherlock Holmes Society of London	A Study In Sherlock
The Baker Street Dozen Pillows	Baker Street Dozen	The Ribston-Pippins
Radio Detective Story Hour	The Beacon Society	A Study in Sherlock
Crime Writers: The List	Sherlock Holmes Top Sites	Monsieur Lecoq
The World of Mr. Sherlock Holmes	Arthur Conan Doyle Collection Languishing	The tangled Web
Blakiana-The Sexton Blake Resource	The Internet Archives of Old Radio Shows	Spermaceti Press
Bibi's Box	Sherlock Holmes Public Library	Old Radio World-Sherlock Holmes
The Baker Street Irregulars Investitures	The Wessex Press	The Sherlockian Calendar

The 2010 BSI Week end

The BSI Weekend was January 14-16, 2010, with the BSI Dinner on January 15, 2010.

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1993 Easton Life Magazine Article Star Democrat-Addicted to Sherlock

Sherlock Holmes, literature's most popular character, is alive and well on Maryland's Eastern Shore. Sherlockians Joe and Chris Wilke and Mary Ann Bradley and Mike Whelan are organizing a program and dinner for a new Baker Street Irregulars' scion called

"The Denizens of the Bar of Gold"

at the Tidewater Inn on Saturday evening December 11th, 1993. This scion (son of) will be one of over 200 literary societies loosely associated with the Baker Street Irregulars, the parent organization founded by Christopher Morley in New York City in 1934.

The Bar of Gold gets its name from the notorious opium den in the Holmes short story, "The Man with the Twisted Lip." In Holmes' own words, he described it

"We (Holmes and Watson) should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds for every poor devil who has been put to death in that den. It is the vilest murder trap in the whole riverside...."

The Poem The Beggar

 .....And so it begins!

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The Poem A Long Evening With Holmes by William P. Schweickert, B.S.I. encompasses the grand illusion

Vincent Starrett Reads the Poem 221B

 

 

 

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