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You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may have an effect on your browsing experience. Shah Mahmood Qureshi. China Coronavirus. Taliban News. This story is from July 22, London's most famous address - B Baker Street — the fictional home of the famous literary detective himself is now in the middle of a scorching mystery — who actually owns it? An investigation into land deals and property records suggests that the London heritage house is linked to notorious Kazakh businessman Rakhat Aliyev and his family.
Aliyev, the son-in-law of Kazakhstan 's president Nursultan Nazarbayev was accused of corruption that helped him amass a multi-million pound business empire. Let us begin our series today by stalking down the gas-lit streets of Victorian London , and turning our magnifying glass toward an architecture that was defined by Holmes and Watson and poses something of a mystery itself: their London flat at B Baker Street.
The mystery of B Baker Street is not one of secret passages or hidden symbols. Rather, it could be described as a sort of existential spatial riddle: how can a space that is not a space be where it is not? But B Baker street did not exist in , nor did it exist in when A Study in Scarlet was published and Baker Street house numbers only extended into the s.
It was a purely fictional address — emphasis on was. Time marches on, Baker Streets are renumbered, and Bs are revealed. But the Sherlock Holmes museum is not, technically speaking, located at Baker Street. In fact, there is still no Baker Street. Since the s, the famous address has been lumped in as part of a larger block of buildings originally occupied by the Abbey National Building Society.
From almost the day the Abbey National opened they began receiving letters from all over the world addressed to Mr. Sherlock Holmes at B Baker Street.
The new museum argued that they were better equipped to respond to the inquiries while the Abbey National presumably wanted to continue their accidental role as the secretary to a fictional detective.
The debate lasted more than a decade and was not resolved until , when the Abbey National vacated their building and the Royal Mail finally agreed to deliver all letters addressed to B Baker Street to the museum at Baker Street.
At the centre of the stories is the address of b Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes's address. But does this address still exist or which address was it based upon? Fans and aficionados of the Sherlock Holmes stories have debated this for many years and proposed many suggestions based upon descriptions and clues in the books.
Firstly, all agree that the present b Baker Street is not the address from the books. It is fictitious. It is in fact, at number The number b indicates that it was a flat or apartment above number
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