The group known as the South Norwood Tourist Board report that Arthur Conan Doyle's former home at 12 Tennison Road South Norwood is up for sale with conversion into flats being a serious possibility.
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| 12 Tennison Road in 2008 and 1892 |
So now both Undershaw and Tennison Road are under threat. It has to be said that Tennison Road is at least in good structural order.
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| Rear view of the house from the garden |
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| Tennison Road today plus sale sign and awful paint job |
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| ACD at his Tennison Road desk |
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| ACD and Louise (from The Strand of August 1892) |
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| ACD and fellow writer Robert Barr outside Tennison Road front door |
The SNTB link can be seen here
http://southnorwoodtouristboard.com/2013/02/13/conan-doyle-house-up-for-auction-may-be-turned-into-flats/
This period in Conan Doyle's life is covered in my book The Norwood Author with some other information in my book Close to Holmes.
The Norwood Author is available from all good bookstores, in many formats worldwide including Waterstones UK, Amazon UK, Amazon USA, Barnes and Noble, Amazon Kindle, iBooks for the iPad/iPhone, Kobo Books, Nook.
Close to Holmes is available from all good bookstores, in many formats worldwide including Amazon USA, Barnes and Noble, Amazon UK, Waterstones UK, Amazon Kindle, Kobo, Nook and iBooks for the iPad/iPhone.
For more information on Arthur Conan Doyle and his time at Undershaw please refer to my book, An Entirely New Country which is available through all good bookstores including Amazon USA, Amazon UK, Classic Specialities, and in all electronic formats including iTunes, Kobo, Nook and Kindle .
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