The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes Mycroft Holmes after George Sanders' failing health removed him from the role. Elaborate sets were built on the backlot at Pinewood Studios including 150 yards of the Baker Street set at a cost of £80,000. The reproduction of the Diogenes Club stood until 1973 having been used in other films such as "Hands of the Ripper" and "Carry On at Your Convenience". The sets were designed by art director Alexandre Trauner. The scenes in Scotland were filmed on location at Urquhart Castle on the banks of Loch Ness. The film originally contained another two separate stories, and a further flashback
Sherlock Holmes Nevertheless, mentions of his early life and extended family paint a loose biographical picture of the detective. An estimate of Holmes's age in "His Last Bow" places his year of birth at 1854; the story, set in August 1914, describes him as sixty years of age. His parents are not mentioned in the stories, although Holmes mentions that his "ancestors" were "country squires". In "The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter", he claims that his grandmother was sister to the French artist Vernet, without clarifying whether this was Claude Joseph, Carle, or Horace Vernet. Holmes's brother Mycroft, seven years his senior,