Lighthouse

"I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds to a light-house.
(Adventure VI, pg. 72)

New Brighton lighthouse around the 1900s.

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Newspaper

As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a chill to my heart.

(Adventure V, pg. 70)

An London newspaper called "Evening News", from July 21st, 1881.

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Newspapers in the Industrial Revolution

Telegram

We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran in this way:

(Adventure IV, pg. 44)

Telegrams were a very common method of communication in the Victorian Era. The telegram in the image above was sent by Mr Ronald Ross to his wife in November 1902, having just found out he’d been awarded a Nobel Prize.

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