The Sherlock Holmes its headquarters on the purported site of 221B Baker Street), decided to create an exhibition based on the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. Four Holmes enthusiasts (with the support of the family of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) designed and planned the exhibition, collecting materials (many of them donated) for display, including a Persian slipper to hold Holmes’s tobacco, a gasogene for Dr Watson's soda, and a jack-knife for Holmes to pin his unanswered correspondence to the mantelpiece with. In Abbey House on Baker Street Holmes' sitting room at 221B Baker Street was created. Each day crumpets were supplied by a local
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes characterisation of Holmes, "with all his little foibles", while in contrast the "Cheltenham Looker-On" described Holmes as "rather a bore sometimes", noting that descriptions of his foibles "grows wearisome". The correspondent for "Hampshire Telegraph" lamented the fact that Doyle's more thoughtful writing, such as "Micah Clarke", was not so popular as the Holmes stories, concluding that an author "who wishes to make literature pay must write what his readers want". Sherlock Holmes has been adapted numerous times for both films and plays, and the character has been played by over 70 different actors in more than 200 films. A number