Sherlock Holmes Pub (1958)

Northumberland St., London. M/S of several couples dining in a pub restaurant. An elderly waitress is serving dessert. The narrator comments that it would take a lot to put the “sober English“ off their food - even the presence of “ a corpse a couple of feet away“. C/U of a respectable woman drinking red wine. M/S of a corner of the restaurant filled with Victorian furniture, test tubes, bottles of chemicals and a “corpse“ - “a bullet holed decoy bust of Sherlock Holmes“. C/U of decoy bust. C/U of Lloyd Taylor’s hand placing a cigar case and a curved pipe on an ornately covered table. The items are “part of a collection of relics from the famous cases of Holmes“ housed in the recently renamed Sherlock Holmes Pub (previously the Old Northumberland Arms). M/S of Mr. Taylor, the man responsible for the collection, picking up and reading an old issue of the Pall Mall Gazette. C/U of newspaper in Mr. T.’s hands. The newspaper is the Diamond Jubilee edition, dated the 19th of June 1897 and has