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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at his desk
The New Roots café on Spital Hill where Conan Doyle worked as a doctor's assistant.
© Nikky Wilson
Arthur Conan Doyle had a brief acquaintance with Burngreave. In 1878 he came to Sheffield to work as an assistant to Dr Charles Sydney Richardson on Spital Hill. This was in the building on the corner of Spital Hill and Hallcar Street, which is now the New Roots Café and Burngreave Ashram. It seems that Conan Doyle did not get along with Dr Richardson or Sheffield patients as he later wrote:
'These Sheffielders would rather be poisoned by a man with a beard than saved by a man without one.'
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