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The visitors were Residential Guests at Christ Church (photo by Sonia Yazmadjian)
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One of Christ Church College's official guides (photo by Sonia Yazmadjian)
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Tom Tower, designed by Christopher Wren in 1681-1682, is the gatehouse and main entrance to Christ Church College (photo by Rakshita Patel)
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Tom Quad, Christ Church - the largest college quadrangle in the university, begun by Cardinal Wolsey in 1525, before his fall from power (photo by Rakshita Patel)
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In the centre of Tom Quad is an ornamental pond with a fountain surmounted by a statue of Mercury. Rising above the buildings behind it is the steeple of Christ Church Cathedral (photo by Rakshita Patel)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
The statue of Mercury, donated by by Harold Bompas in 1928 and restored in 2023, is a lead version of Giovanni da Bologna's bronze statue in the Louvre (photo by Helen Dorey & Marcus Geisser)
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The base of the Mercury Fountain in Tom Quad was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens (photo by Rakshita Patel)
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Tom Quad takes its name from the famous bell, Great Tom, housed in Tom Tower (photo by Tom Atkinson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
Tom Tower, Christ Church surmounts the main entrance to the college. The tower houses the famous bell, Great Tom (photo by Helen Dorey & Marcus Geisser)
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Peckwater Quad, Christ Church was designed by Henry Aldrich and built between 1706 and 1711 (photo by Helen Dorey & Marcus Geisser)
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Blue Boar Quad, Christ Church makes a striking modernist contrast to the elegance of Tom Quad and Peckwater Quad (photo by Sonia Yazmadjian)
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On the walls around Peckwater Quad, the college's sporting victories are rather elegantly commemorated (photo by Sonia Yazmadjian)
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Liddell Gate, between Peckwater Quad and Tom Quad, is named for Henry Liddell (1811-1898), Dean of Christ Church and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University. His daughter Alice inspired "Alice in Wonderland" (photo by Stephen Wallace)
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En route to a drinks reception in the Research Centre, a modern thatched barn in Christ Church Meadow, fitted for conferences and lectures (photo by Sonia Yazmadjian)
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Yes, we're heading in the right direction for drinks and a lecture! (photo by Sonia Yazmadjian)
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We arrive at Christ Church College Research Centre (photo by Sonia Yazmadjian)
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And there's time for a refreshing Amber Ale! (photo by Sonia Yazmadjian)
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Chairman Calvert Markham and co-organiser Marcus Geisser smile for the camera (photo by Sonia Yazmadjian)
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Stephen Wallace, Catherine Cooke and Tom Atkinson are ready to party! (photo by Giles, courtesy of Stephen Wallace)
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And Mark Jones is ready to give the first lecture of the weekend (photo by Stephen Wallace)
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Mark Jones's lecture centres upon one of the late stories in the Holmes canon, "The Creeping Man" (photo by Sonia Yazmadjian)
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The story of the eccentric Professor Presbury is one of the strangest of Dr Watson's accounts (photo by Stephen Wallace)
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Whether "The Creeping Man" is a weak addition to the Holmesian canon, or a powerful one, is really a matter of opinion (photo by Stephen Wallace)
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Frederic Dorr Steele created wonderfully atmospheric illustrations for "The Creeping Man" in 1923 for Hearst's Magazine (photo by Stephen Wallace)
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Dr Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard (1817-1894) was a pioneer endocrinologist and neurophysiologist (photo by Sonia Yazmadjian)
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At the age of 72, Dr Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard claimed rejuvenated sexual prowess after subcutaneous injection of extracts of animal testicles (photo by Sonia Yazmadjian)
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Dr Serge Voronoff (1866-1951) was a French surgeon of Russian descent, and a great self-promotor (photo by Sonia Yazmadjian)
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Known as "the Monkey Gland King", Voronoff believed that aging could be halted or even reversed by transplanting monkey testicles into human beings (photo by Sonia Yazmadjian)
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Inspired by Dr Voronoff's experiments, a plan was devised to establish "a vast breeding ground for anthropoid apes" in west Africa, with associated scientific laboratories (photo by Sonia Yazmadjian)
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Austrian physiologist Eugen Steinach's simple, vasectomy-like operation was perhaps the most popular of the many glandular techniques devised to revitalise the aged (photo by Sonia Yazmadjian)
