Nigel Mugs
Description: The Basil Rathbone The Hound Of The Baskervilles design is inspired by Sidney Lanfield's 1939 adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic The Hound Of The Baskervilles starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Doctor Watson. Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson investigate the legend of a supernatural hound, a beast that may be stalking a young heir on the fog-shrouded moorland that makes up his estate.
Description: A colour artwork depicting a collection of Sir Nigel Gresley designed record breakers. Flying Scotsman, the first steam locomotive to be officially authenticated at a speed of 100 MPH in 1934. Papyrus, 105 MPH March 1935, Silver Link, 112 MPH in September 1935. Mallard is the holder of the world speed record for a steam locomotive at 126 mph in 1938. Sir Nigel Gresley set a post-war steam speed record of 112mph in 1959 and Bittern set a British Preserved speed record of 92.8 MPH in June 2013.
Description: Sherlock Holmes, who first appeared in publication in 1887, was featured in four novels and 56 short stories. Holmes worked as a detective for twenty-three years, with physician John Watson assisting him for seventeen. They were roommates before Watson's 1888 marriage and again after his wife's death. Their residence is maintained by their landlady, Mrs. Hudson. Most of the stories are frame narratives, written from Watson's point of view as summaries of the detective's most interesting cases. Holmes frequently calls Watson's writing sensational and populist, suggesting that it fails to accurately and objectively report the "science" of his craft.
Description: Before Spinal Tap, there was Bad News. Mockumentary / rockumentary heavy metal band featuring Young Ones stars Adrian Edmondson as Vim Fuego (lead vocals and guitar), Rik Mayall as Colin Grigson (bass guitar) and Nigel Planer as Den Dennis (guitar), and Peter Richardson (originally slated to portray Mike on The Young Ones) as Spider Webb (drums).
Description: The sleuth of Baker Street is timeless. It has been over 100 years since the first story featuring Holmes was published in 1887's A Study in Scarlet. The character and stories have had a profound and lasting effect on mystery writing and popular culture as a whole. We love to revisit the old stories just as much (if not more) than we like coming up with new stories. We love translating Sherlock Holmes into every medium we’ve had in that span theater, radio, movies, TV, comics, everything. Holmes has been at home on television since 1950. As television has changed, we have come up with a Holmes for that era. It’s hard to count just how many adaptations of Sherlock Holmes there have been because of so many have used elements of the detective.
