the.com/baker street
the london address so famous its most legendary resident never actually existed.
means a real street in marylebone, london, immortalized as the fictional home of sherlock holmes at the address 221b.
from named after william baker, an 18th-century builder who developed the street in the 1700s — long before arthur conan doyle borrowed it for his detective in 1887, and long before the address existed at all (it was fictional until the street was renumbered).
221b historydidnt exist as an address until 1930s renumbering
real occupantabbey national bank once answered holmes fan mail
tube stationopened 1863, among the worlds oldest underground stops
gerry rafferty1978 sax hit shares only the name