Baker Street

The Baker Street is a street in the Marylebone district, London Borough of City of Westminster (NW1 ).

Became famous Baker Street by the 1886/1887 created fictional character Sherlock Holmes author Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes lives in the stories under the fictional address of 221b Baker Street, although at the time of Arthur Conan Doyle, the road was numbered only up to the number 100. The subway station Baker Street is now adorned in many ways featuring Sherlock Holmes. There service also popularly known already since it opened in 1906 with the portmanteau gave Bakerloo line.

During the Second World War had the secret Special Forces Special Operations Executive (SOE ), which was named in reference to Sherlock Holmes as The Baker Street Irregulars, their headquarters in Baker Street 64

Numerous tourists are attracted each year to the Sherlock Holmes Museum at 221b Baker Street, as well as in the nearby wax museum Madame Tussauds.

Gerry Rafferty sang in 1978, the street in the same rock song, which is distinguished by the character played by Raphael Ravenscroft saxophone solo.

On September 11, 1971 bank robbery took place in Baker Street at a branch of Lloyds Bank.