Fiction Gallery

Living Room, Sherlock Holmes Exhibition, London

Living Room of 221B Baker Street, part of a Sherlock Holmes Exhibition, London, reconstructed by Michael Weight. Details included are Holmes's pipe and his violin. Date: 1951

© Mary Evans/Pharcide

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Filming Thunderbirds

Filming the classic 1960s series Thunderbirds, a British mid-1960s science fiction television show devised by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and made by AP Films. The production used an innovative form of marionette puppetry dubbed Supermarionation'. Date: circa 1965

© Mary Evans Picture Library/David Lewis Hodgson

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Rasselas and Imlac digging a tunnel

Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, together with his companion, the wise man Imlac, digging a tunnel in order to escape the Happy Valley and see what life is like beyond it. An early scene from Samuel Johnson's novella

© Mary Evans Picture Library

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