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- From: credmond@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca (Chris Redmond)
- Subject: Re: Where exactly is Baker St.?
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- Organization: University of Waterloo
- References: <106731@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 13:43:03 GMT
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- In article <106731@netnews.upenn.edu> batzel@work.seas.upenn.edu (John B. Batzel) writes:
-
- >I have several maps, varying scales, of London circa 1850. Could
- >someone more astute than I tell me where Baker St. is in relation to
- >Trafalgar Square? I can find the square, Charing Cross, etc., but
- >none of my maps make mention of Baker Street. Perhaps it doesn't
- >really exist?
-
- Baker Street certainly exists. It is today a business district; in
- Holmes's time it was a respectable middle-class area, becoming well
- known because of the construction of Baker Street Station, a busy
- stop for commuter trains.
-
- From Trafalgar Square, go north along Regent Street to Oxford Street,
- then west along Oxford Street for about the same distance, and you'll
- be at the foot (southerly end) of Baker Street. It extends north to
- the Marylebone Road, just below Regent's Park.
-
- In Holmes's day the thoroughfare now called Baker Street had several
- names -- Baker Street, Upper Baker Street, York Place -- but the geography
- hasn't changed much. A further point of interest is that Madame Tussaud's
- wax museum, one of London's most famous tourist sites, was formerly in
- Baker Street; it's now just around the corner in the Marylebone Road.
- ("On Marylebone Road", as we North Americans would say.)
-
- CAR
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