Effect of TV/Film on history as show in Smithfield
Before the release of Braveheart, very few flowers/memorials were ever left at the memorial to William Wallace at Smithfield. Since then, flowers/flags have been ever present. Since the Independence Vote, it has become a centre for Scottish sentiment, with the addition of flags.
Further down the road, a telephone box has become the centre of fans of Johnlock - Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson. St Barts is indeed where Sherlock and John meet and decide to lodge together with Mrs Hudson, but the Telephone box has only become a 'shrine' since the Cumberbatch/Freeman show in which the death at Reichenbacker Falls is relocated to Smithfield. Every so often the authorities clear it out but the notes soon reappear.
Nearby in Charterhouse Square is Florin Court, where Poirot lived in Whitehaven Masions (actually Florin Court). But this is just the TV location. No web site I could found actually tried to locate the building in fictional reality, but accepted the TV location without question. Given the amount of nerdy attention to detail this is surprising.
So for the record in the ABC murders, Poirot's address is recorded as Whitehaven Mansions W1, and elsewhere it is 30 minutes from Paddington. So Poirot lives somewhere between Soho and Mayfair.
I corrected the Wikipedia page.
Further down the road, a telephone box has become the centre of fans of Johnlock - Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson. St Barts is indeed where Sherlock and John meet and decide to lodge together with Mrs Hudson, but the Telephone box has only become a 'shrine' since the Cumberbatch/Freeman show in which the death at Reichenbacker Falls is relocated to Smithfield. Every so often the authorities clear it out but the notes soon reappear.
Nearby in Charterhouse Square is Florin Court, where Poirot lived in Whitehaven Masions (actually Florin Court). But this is just the TV location. No web site I could found actually tried to locate the building in fictional reality, but accepted the TV location without question. Given the amount of nerdy attention to detail this is surprising.
So for the record in the ABC murders, Poirot's address is recorded as Whitehaven Mansions W1, and elsewhere it is 30 minutes from Paddington. So Poirot lives somewhere between Soho and Mayfair.
I corrected the Wikipedia page.
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