Red Carpet News attended the Sherlock Cosplay World Record attempt at UCL over the weekend, with hundreds of Sherlock Holmes fans donning deerstalker hats and pipes to celebrate Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s ultimate detective and his trusty sidekick Doctor Watson. The fun fan event was raising awareness and funds for the Undershaw Preservation Trust. The trust is leading a campaign to preserve the home where Conan Doyle wrote some of the classic Sherlock books and entertained some of the greatest figures in world literature.

Check out videos below including fans dressed out in their Sherlock attire, an interview with Sherlock Publisher Steve Emecz and a chat with excited Sherlock fangirls about the success of the modern BBC adaptation: