94 Baker Street, formerly the Apple Boutique.

Baker Street is a street in the Marylebone district of the City of Westminster in London. It forms part of the A41. It is most famous for its connection to the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, who lived at 221B Baker Street, an address that does not actually exist. The street is named for builder William Baker who laid the street out in the eighteenth century. It was originally a high class residential address, but now is mainly occupied by commercial premises. Baker Street may mean: Baker Street, a street in London Baker Street (album), an album by Gerry Rafferty. ... Image File history File links Bakerresize. ... A onetime retail store, located on Baker Street in London, England, and one of the first business ventures made by the fledgling Apple Corps, a company founded by the Beatles. ... Marylebone (sometimes written St. ... The City of Westminster is a borough of London, England with city status. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... The A41 is a major trunk road in England, United Kingdom that links London and Birkenhead. ... A portrait of Sherlock Holmes by Sidney Paget from the Strand Magazine, 1891 Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. ... 221B Baker Street is the fictional London residence of the detective Sherlock Holmes, created by author Arthur Conan Doyle. ...

Baker St is in postcode areas NW1/W1 and is a busy thoroughfare. It runs south from Regent's Park, the intersection with Park Road, parallel to Gloucester Place, intersecting Marylebone Road, York Street, Portman Square and Wigmore Street. At the intersection with Wigmore St, Baker St turns into Orchard Street, which ends when it intersects with Oxford Street. This article is about Regents Park in London. ... Marylebone Road, London, looking west towards the junction with Baker Street Marylebone Road (IPA pronunciation: ) is an important thoroughfare in central London. ... The Staffsmart Stadium is the home stadium of Boston United F.C.. Originally called Shodfriars Lane, and then York Street, football has been played on the site since the late 1800s by a variety of Boston teams, but since 1933 it has been used by Boston United. ... Wigmore Street is a London street which runs for about 600 yards parallel to Oxford Street from Portman Square to Cavendish Square. ... Oxford Street, with Centre Point in the background Oxford Street in 1875, looking west from the junction with Duke Street. ...

The street is served by the London Underground by Baker Street tube station; next to the station is Transport for London's lost property office. Baker Street Station is the world's first subway station. It has also been robbed which once used to be Lloyd's Banks. Also referred in the movie The Bank Job Showing most of the released details of the robbery. It was one of the biggest bank robbery scandals ever. The robbers stole more than 3 million pounds. The London Underground is a rapid transit system that serves a large part of Greater London and some neighbouring areas of Essex, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire. ... This article is about the London Underground station on Baker Street. ... Transport For London (TfL) is a local government body responsible for most aspects of the transport system throughout Greater London in England. ... Lost and found is also the name of a band. ... “Mass Transit” redirects here. ...

Notable residents

In 1835, the first permanent exhibition of Madame Tussauds waxworks was opened on Baker St. The museum moved, just around the corner, to Marylebone Road in 1884. Tussauds redirects here. ... A wax museum or waxworks consists of a collection wax figures representing famous people from history and contemporary personalities exhibited in lifelike poses. ...

In 1940 the headquarters of the Special Operations Executive moved to 64 Baker Street, Marks and Spencer office; they were often called the "Baker Street Irregulars" after Sherlock Holmes's gang of street urchins of the same name. The Special Operations Executive (SOE), sometimes referred to as the Baker Street Irregulars after Sherlock Holmess fictional group of spies, was a World War II organization initiated by Winston Churchill and Hugh Dalton in July 1940 as a mechanism for conducting warfare by means other than direct military engagement. ... 64 Baker Street, London was the address of the headquarters of the Special Operations Executive. ... Marks and Spencer plc (known also as M&S and sometimes colloquially as Marks and Sparks) is the largest retailer in the United Kingdom by sales. ... The Baker Street Irregulars are several different groups, all named after the original, from various Sherlock Holmes stories. ...

The Beatles Apple Corp was based at 94 Baker Street, The White Album, see The Beatles (album). ... Apple Records logo, featuring a Granny Smith apple. ...

The head office of Marks and Spencer, formerly the UK's largest retailer, was at "Michael House" (named in parallel with the group's "St Michael" brand) in Baker Street for many years until the company relocated to the Paddington Basin in 2004. This was one of the best known corporate buildings in the UK. It is expected that Michael House will be demolished and replaced with a new mixed use development. Paddington Basin is an area of London at Paddington. ...

British singer Dusty Springfield lived on Baker St in the 1960s.

Media References

In fiction, Sherlock Holmes, James Bond, DangerMouse, Sexton Blake and Basil the Great Mouse Detective have all resided along the road. A portrait of Sherlock Holmes by Sidney Paget from the Strand Magazine, 1891 Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. ... This article is about the spy series. ... DangerMouse is a British animated television series which was produced by Cosgrove Hall Films. ... Sexton Blake Sexton Blake is a fictional detective who has appeared in many British comic strips and novels. ... The Great Mouse Detective is a 1986 animated feature produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation, and originally released to movie theaters on July 2, 1986 by Walt Disney Pictures. ...

“Baker Street” was a song by Gerry Rafferty, released in 1978, particularly noted for its saxophone solo. The original Gerry Rafferty version single cover of Baker Street Baker Street is a song by Gerry Rafferty written in 1978 during his break from the band Stealers Wheel. ... A portrait of Gerry Rafferty by John Patrick Byrne on the cover of the album City to City. ... Year 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar). ...

The original title of "A Samba for Sherlock", by Jô Soares, makes a mention to the street: "O Xangô de Baker Street". José Eugênio Soares, best known as Jô Soares (January 16, 1938) is a Brazilian comedian, talk show host, author and musician. ...

The street was also mentioned by the progressive rock band Jethro Tull in the song "Baker Street Muse" and by H.G. Wells at the end of The War of the Worlds. For the Swedish political music movement, see progg. ... For the 18th-century agriculturist after whom the band was named, see Jethro Tull (agriculturist). ... H. G. Wells at the door of his house at Sandgate Herbert George Wells (September 21, 1866 - August 13, 1946) was an English writer best known for his science fiction novels such as The War of the Worlds and The Time Machine. ... The War of the Worlds (1898), by H. G. Wells, is an early science fiction novel which describes an invasion of England by aliens from Mars. ...

The 2008 film, The Bank Job was based on the 1971 robbery of Lloyds Bank in Baker Street. The Bank Job is a 2008 crime film based on a 1971 true-life robbery of a bank in Baker Street, London, from which the money and valuables stolen were never recovered. ... Lloyds TSB Group plc is a group of financial services companies, based in the United Kingdom, with the registered office in Edinburgh, Scotland. ...

See also

• Baker Street tube station
• 64 Baker Street - headquarters of the SOE
• 221B Baker Street - Sherlock Holmes's residence
• Baker Street Irregulars - Holmes's urchin detectives
• List of eponymous roads in London

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