A little detective work ...
Whilst home in Edinburgh for family reasons recently, I discovered a little stone cottage next to the new doctor's surgery my parents attend has connections with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, famous creator of Sherlock Holmes. Well, it had been a pretty much derelict when I lived in the area as a child. But rather than be demolished when the new health centre was built in Nether Liberton a few years ago, it has been restored, and now houses a small special needs school. This little haven sits sandwiched between the medical buildings and the supermarket car park and petrol station. Bizarre!
An old sycamore tree in the garden could not be reprieved as the roots were diseased. But the huge stump has been carved into a wonderful wooden sculpture of a wolf. I don't know why a wolf. It's definitely a wolf, not the Hound of the Baskervilles! Maybe all will become clearer to me when I have finally read all the stories in my massive Sherlock Holmes compendium (now on page 197 out of 1408), or maybe not.
Anyhow, from some of the good wood which was felled, a violin has been crafted - the so-called Sherlock violin. My mother is to hear it played at a private little concert in a city arts club later in the autumn. Here, however, is the only article I can find about the story, from earlier this year:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/8063293.stm
An old sycamore tree in the garden could not be reprieved as the roots were diseased. But the huge stump has been carved into a wonderful wooden sculpture of a wolf. I don't know why a wolf. It's definitely a wolf, not the Hound of the Baskervilles! Maybe all will become clearer to me when I have finally read all the stories in my massive Sherlock Holmes compendium (now on page 197 out of 1408), or maybe not.
Anyhow, from some of the good wood which was felled, a violin has been crafted - the so-called Sherlock violin. My mother is to hear it played at a private little concert in a city arts club later in the autumn. Here, however, is the only article I can find about the story, from earlier this year:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/8063293.stm