Sherlock Holmes and John Watson black plaque

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# St. Bartholomew's Hospital Plaque Standing before St. Bartholomew's Hospital on West Smithfield, you're standing at the exact threshold where two of literature's most iconic figures first locked eyes on New Year's Day, 1881. It was here, in the corridors and wards of this ancient medical institut...

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St. Bartholomews Hospital, West Smithfield

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At this place New Years Day, 1881 were spoken these deathless words "You have been to Afghanistan, I perceive." by Mr Sherlock Holmes in greeting to John H. Watson M.D. at their first meeting