Sherlock Holmes Museum
Sherlock Holmes Museum traces its roots to the Georgian town house at “221B Baker Street,” built in 1815 and later used as a boarding house from 1860 to 1936. The museum—opened in 1990 and privately run—follows the literary Holmes: it covers the period from 1881 to 1904, when the stories place Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson there as tenants of Mrs Hudson. Its name carries a real-world complication. Although the address “221B” is used by permission of the City of Westminster, the building sits between 237 and 241 on Baker Street, a stretch that forms part of a Grade II listed terrace. The postal number was also contested for decades: since the 1930s, Royal Mail delivered “Sherlock Holmes” letters to the nearby Abbey National Bank, and the issue was finally resolved in 2002 when Abbey National vacated its headquarters. …
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