Thought you might like to see what I was up to at the weekend in London. I had my yearly meet-up with my German Sherlock cosplaying friend Anke and had a mad day and a half dashing around taking photographs of her on location

First the Gratuitous Baker Street shot ...


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What you have to realise is that, when I talk about a ‘stage’ upon which the rooftop duet in “The Reichenbach Fall” is performed, I am quite serious in what I say. The whole layout of the roof, with the way our protagonists move about, the music played and specific buildings in the skyline are taken in and out of shot, are, as Sherlock will later ( Read more... )

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I must admit this last location in the taxi chase in London proved illusive for a long time when I was looking for it. The final corner our heroes run round to meet the taxi is in fact in Cardiff (I will cover this later) but before that they have a tiled passageway in Soho to run into. This is Flaxman Court and oddly enough, is only a couple of ( Read more... )

Aderyn, who normally writes exquisite poetic short fanfiction stories wrote a lovely piece of poetic meta-analysis talking about “A bullet flown from Hope to Magnussen singing I killed for you ( Read more... )

Remember me taking photos of cosplaying students at Bart's on our trip in October?


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• St Woolos cemetery Sherlock area has been re-levelled and re-turfed and grave moved two feet to the right.
• Old grave, and bark chippings still very visible in the fly-in shot with Mary (whoops).
• Someone knows Sherlock lives near the HQ of The Magic Circle in Euston as they shot on Sanderson Way last series.
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For this next short sequence we need to relocate ourselves again and visit the most easterly location used in the Soho chase. As I have a thing for trying to find things out myself I don’t usually listen to the commentary tracks on my DVDS, but in this case I decided to. The Pret-a-Manger on Bateman Street is one of four in the Soho area and I have ( Read more... )

If you've stuck with me so far by now you'll be getting the idea that the on screen taxi chase through Soho only looked like one cohesive run-around. We are seeing there were a lot of separate streets and roads linked up in the sequences, but at least for my sake all but one (which we will talk about when we get there) can be found in Soho. There ( Read more... )

I have been entertaining my not-so-well self on the sofa by reading Tumblr entries of fans. With all the excitement going on about the new series they are tying themselves in knots.  The Musical Rooftops played out at St Bartholomew's and the speculations on what that really means? I am laughing out loud at the things these people think are ( Read more... )