Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
Sunday morning: we are at Serle's House in the former Lower Barracks, now home to the Hampshire Regiment Museum (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
Lt Col Colin Bulleid, Curator of the Museum, welcomes the Society (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
Colonel Bulleid served for 33 years in the Royal Hampshire Regiment (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
The army has moved from what's now called Winchester's Military Quarter (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
Here is the Hampshire Regiment Museum, and in the former Upper Barracks are five more army museums (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
We are in time to see a temporary exhibition of some relevance to the Society (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
"Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the case of the steel-plated soldier" finishes tomorrow!
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
While Colonel Bulleid takes one group, Deputy Curator Susannah Jarvis takes the other (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
The very expensive housing in Peninsula Square is part of the former Peninsula Barracks (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
This magnificent building houses the Gurkha Museum and the Museum of the King's Royal Hussars (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
Peter Horrocks & Calvin Markham admire the splendid architecture in Peninsula Square (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
Upper Barracks was renamed Peninsula Barracks in 1964 (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
Grace Dunbar would have been held at Winchester Prison, awaiting trial for the murder of Maria Gibson (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
These boards outside Winchester Prison seem utterly incongruous (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
In fact there is a new luxury housing development going up alongside the far from luxurious prison (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
Despite the neat paint job, Winchester Prison is secure and forbidding (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
A tunnel runs under Romsey Road from Winchester Prison to the Royal Hampshire County Hospital opposite (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
Down the hill from the prison, and much more elegant, is Clifton Terrace (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
Where the road curves round beside the Westgate once stood the historic Plume of Feathers inn (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
Close to the Westgate is Mottisfont Court, Hampshire Constabulary Operational Headquarters (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
Winchester Cathedral on this glorious Sunday in late summer (photo by Rakshita Patel)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
The city's Guildhall is a splendidly confident Victorian Gothic building (photo by Rakshita Patel)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
Lunch in the Hampshire Room at our hotel (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
David Bentata wonders what's on the menu for lunch (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
Helena Silver, Helen Dorey & John McNabb (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
Linda Smith & Chris Seymour (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
Katarina Antony-Kittelsen & Ernst-Harald Mock (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
In an unexpected place at Winchester Royal Hotel, we find a familiar, though uncanonical, word... (photo by Roger Johnson)