IN SHERLOCK’S FOOTSTEPS - Guided Walk of Conan Doyle's Portsmouth

Matt Wingett invites you to walk the streets that young Arthur Conan Doyle walked 140 years ago. You’ll meet at the Landport Gate and take a walk through Old Portsmouth to Southsea. On the way Matt will tell you some of his adventures in the town and you’ll discover:

- where he got into a bout of fisticuffs on his first day
- the site where the real Dr Watson once lived
- why he was involved in real deaths, a stabbing and disasters in the city
- the pub where he attended an inquest
- how the town gave him place names for his characters
- the place where he met his wife to be
- how tragedy threw him and his first wife together
- the place where he met his “Platonic mistress”
- where he spent his last night before leaving the town in 1890

GUIDED WALK INFO:

DATE: 22nd September 2025
Meeting point: Outside Portsmouth City Museum
When: 2pm Eventbrite Link
Tickets: £15
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