Clippings is a page that contains an assortment of notes from various sources. These are things drawn from newspapers and magazines that are of interest to the Victorian Gamer.
.In September 1999, London's first statue of Sherlock Holmes was unveiled. It is located at the Baker Street subway station, which is actually on Marleybone Street, but is just two blocks from the spot where 221b Baker Street would have been. The statue was funded by the Abbey National Bank, which has a large building in the 200 block of baker Street and maintains a staffer who serves as "the Secretary to Sherlock Holmes."
.The 1900 House is a British televison series that is a sort of Victorian version of MTV's The Real World. A British family volunteered to live in a house that had been retrofitted to Victorian technology and have their lives filmed. Negotiations are currently ongoing to bring this series to PBS in the United States. The show and its website provide a remarkably accurate documentary of day-to-day living in the nineteenth century.
THE British adventurer David Hempleman-Adams unveiled yesterday his plan to revisit the heroic Victorian age of exploration by attempting a seven-day flight across the North Pole in a balloon and wicker basket.
THE Durban Club, one of the city's colonial landmarks, is set to join the list of casualties among old-style British gentlemen's clubs in South Africa and may become a Hindu community centre.