Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson
Bart's — specifically one of its chemical laboratories — was the location of the very first meeting of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in Arthur Conan Doyle's 1887 novel A Study in Scarlet. Bart's was Dr. Watson's alma mater. This fictional connection led to a donation of £650 by the Tokyo "Sherlock Holmes Appreciation Society" to the Save Barts Campaign in the 1990s.
The second series' final episode of the updated BBC series Sherlock, "The Reichenbach Fall", had Holmes believed to have fallen to his death from the roof of St Bartholomew's as a surrogate for the waterfall of the original story "The Final Problem".
Read more about this topic: St Bartholomew's Hospital
Famous quotes containing the words holmes and/or watson:
““No, no; the real name,” said Holmes sweetly. “It is always awkward doing business with an alias.””
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)
“The feathers of the willow
Are half of them grown yellow
Above the swelling stream;
And ragged are the bushes,
And rusty now the rushes,
And wild the clouded gleam.”
—Richard Watson Dixon (1833–1900)