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Electrical Connection Question.

Q. What is the connection between Hill House at Happisburgh and Mike (mapJ1) the valued and respected forum member?

 

Z.

  • I bet that Mike doesn't even know the answer!

  • Was it the electrical training college he went to?

  • The link is here…..

    Arthur Conan Doyle - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/.../Arthur_Conan_Doyle

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    Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are milestones in the field of crime fiction. Doyle was a prolific writer; other than Holmes stories, his works include fantasy a…

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    Sherlock Holmes was a methodical detective who paid much attention to details. He used the details to solve cases. Mike also is similar in his great research and use of technical details in his balanced and learned answers to our questions.

    Conan Doyle once visited Hill House in Happisburgh near to me, and a plaque proves this. He based one of his stories on Hill House which is now a pub.

    Oh and the electric bit…………

     

    adjective

     

    1.

    of, worked by, charged with, or producing electricity.

    "an electric cooker"

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    generated by electricity

     

    galvanic

     

     

    having or producing a sudden sense of thrilling excitement.

    "the atmosphere was electric"

    Z.

     

  • BBC Radio Norfolk - BBC Radio Norfolk Special, Far From the Fogs - Sherlock Holmes in Norfolk, Sherlock Holmes in Norfolk - The Hill House pub in Happisburgh, North Norfolk

  • Kelly Marie Angel: 
     

    Was it the electrical training college he went to?

    err no.,..

    actually  I have precious little evidence of any electrically specific education at all.  (unless you for a PhD from the University of London, in electrical and electronic engineering, but that was research, not taught. Lasting memories of Scouts addressing me with ‘What’s up Doc ?' when I achieved that have put me off announcing that unless it is really relevant.  I prefer to be ‘Mike’)

    Chris Pearson

    I bet that Mike doesn't even know the answer!

     indeed I do not

    I too looked  forward to the answer with interest.

    Oddly I live within about 10 Miles of where Conan Doyle is buried. Last time I went there someone had left a pipe on the gravestone.

    Mike.

  • Zoomup: 
     

    Q. What is the connection between Hill House at Happisburgh and Mike (mapJ1) the valued and respected forum member?

     

    Z.

    Googling MAPJ, i get the Manhattan Alliance for Peace & Justice

    And Sherlock Holmes was a Man with a Hat On