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- From: g00023@TIGGER.STCLOUD.MSUS.EDU (Eric Hedlund)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.holmes
- Subject: Re: Where exactly is Baker St.?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.141850.2219@msus1.msus.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 20:18:50 GMT
- References: <106731@netnews.upenn.edu>,<C1IM3u.ELs@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>
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- In article <C1IM3u.ELs@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>, credmond@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca (Chris Redmond) writes:
- >In article <106731@netnews.upenn.edu> batzel@work.seas.upenn.edu (John B. Batzel) writes:
- >
- >>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.
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- >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
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- Isn't it also true that there is a Holmes museum of sorts on Baker
- Street under the fictional address of "221b?" Someone mentioned this
- to me a while ago. Is there any truth to it? I'll be in Great
- Britain in June, and I would like to visit the museum when during my
- stay in London..
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