I've lived in Plymouth, but I didn't know of the ACD connection:
Blue plaque on Plymouth house to mark home of Sherlock creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Sarah_Herald | Posted: April 29, 2016
A plaque to commemorate the creator of the world's most famous fictional detective will make its home on a city mansion.
Earlier this year residents at 6 Elliot Terrace on the Hoe
applied to install a blue plaque for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the entrance of the Grade II listed property.
During his stay in Plymouth in 1882 the Scottish writer and physician lodged with his partner in medicine and former classmate, George Budd, at the waterfront house.
Doyle went on to write some of the world's most gripping crime stories, generally considered milestones in the field of that genre.
That's why planning permission was applied for to attach a blue plaque to his former home's front wall, which is now split into flats.
Plymouth City Council this week gave the plans the green light.
Talks are still underway to decide what text will appear on the commemorative sign, but it will marks Doyle's date of birth and death, 1858-1930, and that he 'lodged here with Dr Budd, his medical partner'.
The city practice Doyle worked at with Budd was on Durnford Street, where a Chinese supermarket now stands.
When it was a car dealership, a blue plaque for Doyle was attached to the wall inside detailing the relationship with himself and the doctor.
Pamela Magill, a Blue Badge tour guide, said this plaque went missing when the building was demolished, and has been waiting ever since for a new one to be reinstated.
"We have to remember all these people," she said. "I am very pleased there will be a new plaque."
Doyle described 6 Elliot Terrace as a spacious residence with an "imposing sweep of steps" up to the door above which were five or six storeys with "pinnacles and flagstaff" on the top.
There were about thirty rooms, and the ground floor rooms and hall were on a "spectacular scale".
It is believed Doyle's experiences with Dr Budd had a great influence on him – giving up a medical career for writing.
"Budd's erratic yet ingenious personality is used in many characters in his stories," the planning application says. "It has been said that Sherlock Holmes was based on a combination of Dr Budd and Dr Joseph Bell, his mentor at Edinburgh."
It adds: "The applicant and neighbours are regularly approached by visitors/tourists asking if the building is 'really where Sir Arthur Conan Doyle lived?' A plaque would confirm this rather than be dependent on chance conversation."
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