Who’s returned to Picardy Place? It’s elementary…

The Scotsman

Who’s returned to Picardy Place? It’s elementary…  Sherlock Holmes has returned to keep a watchful eye over Picardy Place, as his newly refurbished statue is unveiled.  Marking the nearby birthplace of the super sleuth’s creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the life-sized bronze sculpture was removed in 2018 while Trams to Newhaven works were carried out. It has been renovated by Black Isle Bronze in Nairn.  On Wednesday, 13 September, Conan Doyle’s relative and creator of the Sherlock Homes Tartan, Tania Henzell, helped to unveil the statue in position on the newly redeveloped Picardy Place island, which will open to the public next week.  The island includes new pedestrian routes and cycleways, ‘rain gardens’ and trees and shrubs, which will be planted on the island in October, during planting season

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00:00 I am the step great great granddaughter of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

00:15 We're in Edinburgh today to unveil the new restored statue of Sherlock Holmes.

00:24 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Picardy Place, which is just down there, and so the

00:31 statue of Sherlock Holmes has been put here for that reason.

00:35 It's good to have Sherlock in Edinburgh, the statue, because as he's in the heart of Edinburgh

00:40 he can look after what's going on.

00:43 And he has been up north the past few years being restored and looking good, and he's

00:48 now looking much better, a bit cleaner, no seagull mess all over him.

00:53 So, he's looking good.

00:54 He's looking good.

00:55 He's looking good.

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