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The Baker Street Irregulars meeting on January 30, 1940. Those pictured include Christopher Morley, Frederic Dorr Steele, Robert Keith Leavitt, and David A. Randall, among others. [1] The Baker Street Irregulars is an organization of Sherlock Holmes enthusiasts founded in 1934 by Christopher Morley. [2]
After working from temporary offices in Central London, the headquarters of SOE was moved on 31 October 1940 into 64 Baker Street (hence the nickname "the Baker Street Irregulars"). Ultimately, SOE occupied much of the western side of Baker Street. "Baker Street" became the euphemistic synecdoche of referring to SOE. The precise nature of the ...
The Baker Street Irregulars play a lead role in the series of cooperative board games Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective, first published in 1981 with multiple expansions released later. In 2020 the fourth game in the series was released, titled 'The Baker Street Irregulars'. [25]
A highly gregarious man, he was the mainstay of what he dubbed the "Three Hours for Lunch Club". Out of enthusiasm for the Sherlock Holmes stories, he helped found the Baker Street Irregulars [1] and wrote the introduction to the standard omnibus edition of The Complete Sherlock Holmes.
Robert Keith Leavitt (1895–1967) was a Harvard-educated New York City advertising copywriter who turned to non-fiction writing. He was the author of many books, including a history of Webster's Dictionary and "The Chip on Grandma's Shoulder" (1954.) 'Bob' Leavitt was also the longtime historian of the original The Baker Street Irregulars, devoted to all things Holmesian, about which he wrote ...
Armistice Day Parade in downtown Fort Worth on Nov. 11, 1938, marked 20 years after the end of World War I. The parade grand marshall, Haywood Davis, is followed by the Texas Christian University ...
The Potomac Street Irregulars (PSI) meet the second Tuesday of every month to study crime in Antietam History. The group's name is borrowed from the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in which Holmes engages the services of a group of street urchins to gather information for him. He called his urchins the "Baker Street Irregulars."
Old photos of the opening of the John T. Alsop Jr. Bridge, more commonly called the Main Street bridge, show a very different downtown in 1941.