 In 1985, Penguin erected a plaque on number 8 to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Penguin paperback.In Conan Doyle's "The Lost World", 1912, a South American adventure, Lord John Roxton, based on Irish human rights activist Roger Casement, turns down Vigo street and 'through the dingy portals of the famous aristocratic rookery' to his Albany chambers.Doyle describes his rooms, art and gun collection, in great detail.