Amateur sleuths and budding private detectives can help Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson solve a mysterious crime, at Blists Hill Victorian Town over the weekend of Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th August.Go along and try your hand at forensic science, taking fingerprints, printing reward posters and matching plaster cast footprints to different shoes.
The Sherlock Holmes Weekend is part of a programme of days out, exhibitions and festivals celebrating the 25th anniversary of Ironbridge Gorge being designated as one of the UK’s first World Heritage Sites in 1986.
Follow the trail of clues around the open-air museum and put your powers of deduction to the test helping the eccentric private detective and his side-kick to solve the curious mystery of treasure stolen from the Earl of Craven’s mansion. Holmes and Watson will be on hand during the weekend to discuss the crime and talk about recent cases.
And this year Mrs Hudson, the intrepid duo’s housekeeper at 221b Baker Street in London’s West End, will be joining them on their visit to darkest Shropshire; there will also be a hansom cab to transport them around the town.
Blists Hill is one of the Ironbridge Gorge Museums, a Passport to all ten valid for twelve months and unlimited return visits, costs £22.50 per adult, £18.25 for the 60 plus, £14.75 for students and children and £61.50 for a family of two adults and three children aged up to 18 years in full time education; under 5s free. Individual museum entry tickets are also available.
