Back in the 1980's, I worked for Burroughs Machines and used to go into Abbey National to fix their computer equipment. I remember talking to the lady who answered the Sherlock mail. There was loads of it from all over the world and I believe that Abbey replied to every one.
I mentioned this to my dad, Gordon, who also worked for Burroughs/Unisys. He said he remembers you, worked out of park royal at the time, along with John Nichols and others. Small world!
Zone 1 = Good, Zone 2 = Mostly good, Zone 3 = Some good areas, Zone 4 and beyond = mostly terrible with very few worthwhile places to visit and/or live in.
@@SportyMabamba Truly amazing what people left behind on tubes and buses, some very weird objects and sensitive documents. If owners could not be traced they were kept for a minimum 3 months and then sent to the bi-annual auction if unclaimed.
Visited the museum in 2013, stood 2 1/2 hours in line just to get in. But it was worth it. This is one of the better museums in London, definitely has more character than Madame Tussauds nearby. I wonder what is the shortest time in which you can visit all London train stations mentioned in the novels and short stories.
"The only out of sequence door number in London"... Try Chapel Market: 1a, 1b, 2a, 1, 2, 3. Also, the numbers go up to 50 on once side of the street, then back down to 100 on the other side. My shop was 2a and the postman got lost pretty much every day.
There are a fair number of streets where the numbers go up on one side and down on the other. It was the standard way of number of housing in Georgian times. The "odds and evens" approach was standardised in Victorian times: I've speculated in the past that this was because streets were being lengthened on a grand scale during the Victorian expansion of London and the "odds and evens" method avoided less renumbering of property than the "up and down" method.
Back in the late 90's I went for an interview for a senior finance role in that Abbey National building you mentioned. I well remember being asked one of the oddest questions I've ever been asked in literally dozens & dozens of interviews : "If you were sadly to be run over by a bus after leaving this building, what epitaph would you want on your tombstone ?" Nothing at all to do with Sherlock but of interest maybe ?! 😎👍👍
We were taught 'The hound of the Baskervilles' as part of our English curriculum when I was in class 8 in India. I was so fascinated by Sherlock Holmes then and even today.
London City is simply a great, culturally rich, home to best unis, marvelous architecture, diversed F&B and many other wonderful sights. Gotta visit at least once in your lifetime. 😃 Expensive but definitely worth it.
He’s changed his stage name from “Transportine” to “Elementary”. Still Matt Brown is a historian. And Baker Street is well famous because of Madame Tussauds and London Marylebone station.
He probably made it a non-existent address on purpose. Like if you want to find the spot of 623 East 68th Street (the home of Lucy and Ricky on “I Love Lucy”) you’re going to need to go for a swim in the East River.
Can't believe "Bedford Row" was not included ( 2015 movie Mr Holmes - Long-retired near the end of his life, Sherlock Holmes, lives opposite the house known by the general public )
Got to 3.29 minutes and just could not take anymore of that background music. You have many interesting things to say , you have wonderful and evocative visuals . What do you hope to achieve by adding abysmal background sounds ?
Everyone knows it's next to Speedy's Cafe on North Gower Street. The one with the hidden blue plaque (although curiously not hidden in every exterior shot).
@xirsamoht x - There was a popular but very untrue myth in Britain (started by a radio DJ) that quiz show host Bob Holness was the guy playing sax on the original record.
It' s a great video! When visiting another city or country, every educated person must visit a museum. Visiting museums is very useful and fascinating. A love for the "eternal" and "beautiful" is awakened in a person, the beginnings of greatness and respect for history are inculcated. It is impossible to turn the excursion into something banal, ordinary and boring. The person should be a comprehensively developed person, cultured, educated, critically and analytically thinking, with knowledge of foreign languages. It is the knowledge of a foreign language that opens wide prospects for a person to realize his/her creative potential, career and financial growth. I would like to recommend the practical training course by Yuriy Ivantsiv "Polyglot Notes. Practical tips for learning foreign language", where you can find lots of useful information how to learn a foreign language quickly. Learn a foreign language and realize your creative potential on an international scale! The international community needs creative ideas! Thanks to the author of the channel for a very fascinating tour!
Anyone under the age of 40 only knows the metric system, by the 80's Imperial measurements were no longer taught even alongside Metric like I was taught and used both at school.
@@4879daniel Speak for yourself! London is an international city, where about 40% of us were born outside the UK, and many of us think in metric. For me (and I'm 55) a pint is a bit more than half a litre, and I have no feel for what a stone might be (a measurement unknown in the US for example, about the only other place in the world where they measure distances in miles). I'm fine with mph as a driver but my satnav is set to metric.
“What happened to good old imperial units?” you ask? Simple. People realised metric was easier to use and simpler to understand, so they switched and started using that instead (except for the Americans). Well, partially. We Brits dropped shillings and use Celsius, but cars still travel at X mph. Cookbooks are written to measure out millilitres of milk and grams of butter, but people still give their personal height and weight measurements with imperial. Milk and beer comes in pints, all other drinks come in 2 litre bottles. Maybe someday we’ll go fully metric, but I’m guessing if we haven’t done it already, in the year 2020, we’re probably never going to.
He never said link in the description... He said "though the link" which pops up on the card in the top right. So learn the art of actively listening before calling someone a liar. I really hate it when people don't listen.
@@MatthewJBD well a card i not a link, it's a card. Links can only go in the description or comments, so he may not have said " in the description" but it is implied.
@@skrymerU Give it up man. The link clearly pops up as he says it on the top right corner. You must be new to TH-cam if you think links can only appear in the description/comments.
Back in the 1980's, I worked for Burroughs Machines and used to go into Abbey National to fix their computer equipment. I remember talking to the lady who answered the Sherlock mail. There was loads of it from all over the world and I believe that Abbey replied to every one.
I mentioned this to my dad, Gordon, who also worked for Burroughs/Unisys. He said he remembers you, worked out of park royal at the time, along with John Nichols and others. Small world!
Jeremy Rawlings I was a Telegram boy in the 70s it was definitely the Abbey National building.
Not going to lie I just randomly typed 221B Baker Street & found this channel
Just lie, it's more interesting.
Me as well
London is such a great city!
Some of it is.
It was.
Zone 1 = Good, Zone 2 = Mostly good, Zone 3 = Some good areas, Zone 4 and beyond = mostly terrible with very few worthwhile places to visit and/or live in.
But it makes you feel so cold, it's got so many people but it's got no soul.
If by great you mean dangerous then yeah it is
Great Video with ❤️ from Calcutta 🇮🇳
When I was an LT bus driver in the 70's, 221 Baker St was part of LT's lost property office.
That’s actually quite interesting. For all boroughs or just north west
The modern incarnation of the lost property office is round the corner next to the Jubilee line entrance at Baker St. Covers the whole TfL network.
@@SportyMabamba Truly amazing what people left behind on tubes and buses, some very weird objects and sensitive documents. If owners could not be traced they were kept for a minimum 3 months and then sent to the bi-annual auction if unclaimed.
Visited the museum in 2013, stood 2 1/2 hours in line just to get in. But it was worth it. This is one of the better museums in London, definitely has more character than Madame Tussauds nearby.
I wonder what is the shortest time in which you can visit all London train stations mentioned in the novels and short stories.
How about a map and a video of the "Rivers of London" series from Ben Aaronovitch?
Asks himself: "Where is Baker Street?" * Pulls out phone and opens maps *
"The only out of sequence door number in London"... Try Chapel Market: 1a, 1b, 2a, 1, 2, 3. Also, the numbers go up to 50 on once side of the street, then back down to 100 on the other side. My shop was 2a and the postman got lost pretty much every day.
There are a fair number of streets where the numbers go up on one side and down on the other. It was the standard way of number of housing in Georgian times. The "odds and evens" approach was standardised in Victorian times: I've speculated in the past that this was because streets were being lengthened on a grand scale during the Victorian expansion of London and the "odds and evens" method avoided less renumbering of property than the "up and down" method.
Great video Matt! Never read a Sherlock Holmes book in my life, but now you've inspired me!
I was sent here by an Instagram rabbit hole and it answered all of my questions and then some! Great stuff!
I love these types of videos! :D Very well done and informative!
Back in the late 90's I went for an interview for a senior finance role in that Abbey National building you mentioned. I well remember being asked one of the oddest questions I've ever been asked in literally dozens & dozens of interviews :
"If you were sadly to be run over by a bus after leaving this building, what epitaph would you want on your tombstone ?"
Nothing at all to do with Sherlock but of interest maybe ?! 😎👍👍
Stephen Pegum What was your response? And what was their reasoning for such an odd question?
Amazing content. Thanks for exploring!
London, London, why you stole my heart?
We were taught 'The hound of the Baskervilles' as part of our English curriculum when I was in class 8 in India. I was so fascinated by Sherlock Holmes then and even today.
I once found £180 hanging out of the cash machine at the Abbey HQ, I had a nice thank you note some while after handing it in the next day.
"I've actually mapped ever single location" - Holy *
Good job man, that's some work load!
London City is simply a great, culturally rich, home to best unis, marvelous architecture, diversed F&B and many other wonderful sights. Gotta visit at least once in your lifetime. 😃 Expensive but definitely worth it.
He’s changed his stage name from “Transportine” to “Elementary”. Still Matt Brown is a historian. And Baker Street is well famous because of Madame Tussauds and London Marylebone station.
Great work !
Can confirm, Speedy's has a fantastic fry-up.
He probably made it a non-existent address on purpose.
Like if you want to find the spot of 623 East 68th Street (the home of Lucy and Ricky on “I Love Lucy”) you’re going to need to go for a swim in the East River.
Similarly with Nero Wolfe’s address which was sometimes in the Hudson River (although fans have placed a plaque at a particular address)
It was definitely done for that purpose.
How about 704 Hauser St in Queens. (Archie and Edith Bunker)
Can't believe "Bedford Row" was not included ( 2015 movie Mr Holmes - Long-retired near the end of his life, Sherlock Holmes, lives opposite the house known by the general public )
Got to 3.29 minutes and just could not take anymore of that background music. You have many interesting things to say , you have wonderful and evocative visuals . What do you hope to achieve by adding abysmal background sounds ?
I have been to London many times and I have yet to discover these places 😌
Anyone remember the 'Arts and Crafts of China' shop that used to be in Baker Street ?
Everyone knows it's next to Speedy's Cafe on North Gower Street. The one with the hidden blue plaque (although curiously not hidden in every exterior shot).
Well, I thought 221b Baker Street was on... Baker Street :)
@xirsamoht x - Not being performed by Bob Holness.
@xirsamoht x - There was a popular but very untrue myth in Britain (started by a radio DJ) that quiz show host Bob Holness was the guy playing sax on the original record.
The '50's on Victoria Embankment aren't sequential at all, 58 is next to 50, then it's back down to 56.
It might not exist, but it is still covered in The Knowledge
In the video you mention a book and map. Is there a link? Thanks.
the game is on!
Good vid
Dubious instrumentals.
The difference between fiction and reality. Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character, 221b Baker Street London NW1 an actual address
Anyone else looking for a mystery to solve in the background?
It’s quite an expensive little museum 😂
I love Sherlock Holmes ❤️
The Adventure of the Grey Beanie Hat...…...deep waters these, Watson.
Where is 221b Baker Street? Simple - nowhere. It's a fictional address.
Thank you
the address actually exists 😅so how can it be nowhere
It was a fictional address
@@kiera4136 It doesn't exist - it's entirely fictional. "221 Baker Street exists, as do 219 and 223 Baker Street ... but NOT 221b.
@@phillwainewright4221I heard that they made a street called 221B that derived from Sherlock address
Keen follower of him from INDIA ❤️ 🇮🇳❤️
Abby national sold the bricks off when they demolished the original 221b and my mum got one it came in Sherlock Holmes packaging.
Who is this Sheerlock??
wait so that's not really 221B Baker street? Oh well, it was a cool place to see anyway
He made it up. Just like he did (spoiler alert!) Sherlock Holmes...
well, that explains a lot
This place is what my shirt says
Is this the baker street Gerry Raferty spoke of ????????
Where did married Dr Watson live?
I am here. I am not a bot.
Can someone tell the pretend bobby to wear his helmet properly? He's not a pretend firefighter, after all!
It' s a great video! When visiting another city or country, every educated person must visit a museum. Visiting museums is very useful and fascinating. A love for the "eternal" and "beautiful" is awakened in a person, the beginnings of greatness and respect for history are inculcated. It is impossible to turn the excursion into something banal, ordinary and boring. The person should be a comprehensively developed person, cultured, educated, critically and analytically thinking, with knowledge of foreign languages. It is the knowledge of a foreign language that opens wide prospects for a person to realize his/her creative potential, career and financial growth. I would like to recommend the practical training course by Yuriy Ivantsiv "Polyglot Notes. Practical tips for learning foreign language", where you can find lots of useful information how to learn a foreign language quickly. Learn a foreign language and realize your creative potential on an international scale! The international community needs creative ideas! Thanks to the author of the channel for a very fascinating tour!
Nazarbayev's grandson knows where it is. Если ли здесь казахстаны?
0:29 1881 - 1904? Sherlock only lived 23 years?
@Jack McFeely Sure! I was kiddin' :)
i ve always pronounced it shur lock not cher lock !
The game is afoot
um the guys not real
Some people don't give a shit though....Weird isn't it.🤷🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️
Putin Holmes
his non-London accent is triggering me
2:55 "kilometre"? what happened to good old imperial units? i am sure sherlock would be dismayed!
He is the one person that would have used mettic immediately
Anyone under the age of 40 only knows the metric system, by the 80's Imperial measurements were no longer taught even alongside Metric like I was taught and used both at school.
@@tonys1636 Everyone uses miles, stones and pints doesn't matter what was taught in school.
@@4879daniel Speak for yourself! London is an international city, where about 40% of us were born outside the UK, and many of us think in metric. For me (and I'm 55) a pint is a bit more than half a litre, and I have no feel for what a stone might be (a measurement unknown in the US for example, about the only other place in the world where they measure distances in miles). I'm fine with mph as a driver but my satnav is set to metric.
“What happened to good old imperial units?” you ask?
Simple. People realised metric was easier to use and simpler to understand, so they switched and started using that instead (except for the Americans).
Well, partially. We Brits dropped shillings and use Celsius, but cars still travel at X mph. Cookbooks are written to measure out millilitres of milk and grams of butter, but people still give their personal height and weight measurements with imperial. Milk and beer comes in pints, all other drinks come in 2 litre bottles.
Maybe someday we’ll go fully metric, but I’m guessing if we haven’t done it already, in the year 2020, we’re probably never going to.
That model is a bit of a cross between Putin and Freddie Mercury in his later days.
I really hate it when they just lie straight up like that. "there will be a link" and then there is no link in the description.
He never said link in the description... He said "though the link" which pops up on the card in the top right. So learn the art of actively listening before calling someone a liar.
I really hate it when people don't listen.
@@MatthewJBD well a card i not a link, it's a card. Links can only go in the description or comments, so he may not have said " in the description" but it is implied.
@@skrymerU literally as he said in the link the link popped up on the card. The card is literally a link.
@@skrymerU Give it up man. The link clearly pops up as he says it on the top right corner. You must be new to TH-cam if you think links can only appear in the description/comments.
goo.gl/maps/kydrMFEFnb9sSHfk8
When I visited in 1994 it was a guitar and musical instrument shop.
Now I bet it’s a mosque
Inshallah
maybe they sell blares now...
RayEttler - What’s that?
What a horrible comment. Why eight people have seen fit to like it is beyond my comprehension.
@Scott Anderson this is weird. Because the Sherlock Holmes Museum was established in 1990.