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It's also a home to loads of charity muggers or chuggers - or maybe that's the Baker Street end of Marylebone Road.
BTW DG your Google Map link doesn't appear to be pointing at Baker Street
Annie Mole | Homepage | 25.01.06 - 8:40 a.m. | #
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Annie - I think it *is* - it's just not marked (Google presumably thinks it's insignificant!). It's the brownish road running down the centre (to the right of Gloucester Place) with a south-pointing arrow on it.
Blue Witch | Homepage | 25.01.06 - 9:32 a.m. | #
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The last time I walked the whole length of Baker Street is wasn't that bad.
Hmmm.... *thinks*... ah, yes, that was 22 years ago, when I lived in Goldsmid House (one of the UCL Halls of Residence, above the shops opposite the M&S at the Marble Arch End of Oxford Street)). Any other readers ever lived there?
And that's one of my all-time favourite songs (amybe more for the related memories than for anything else) 
Blue Witch | Homepage | 25.01.06 - 9:35 a.m. | #
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FUN FACT! The Scissor Sisters lived on Baker Street for a while, about two years ago, when their career taking off in the UK.
mike | Homepage | 25.01.06 - 12:08 p.m. | #
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Cheers Blue Witch - I just assumed it would have a bigger arrow pointing roughly in the general area
Annie Mole | Homepage | 25.01.06 - 1:02 p.m. | #
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The abbey building is gone? I visited Baker Street when I went to London a few years ago. Glad now that I had. Though the mock-up didn't have the policeman when I was there, though it was in March, might've had something to do with it.
Bastet | Homepage | 25.01.06 - 2:38 p.m. | #
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Oh dear. I used to work in both the M&S head office and the Abbey. Neither were particularly bad places to work, but it seems I've taken them both with me.
Matt | Homepage | 25.01.06 - 6:27 p.m. | #
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...and no mention of the popular urban myth that Bob Holness provided the saxophone solo (which is the only thing that makes this awful track memorable)
Rob | 25.01.06 - 6:48 p.m. | #
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I seem to recall an episode of TOTP2 many years back, in which it was suggested that the baker street mentioned in the song was not the one in London, but one in some other UK city. Blowed if I can find anything online about it though.
Lew | Homepage | 25.01.06 - 7:15 p.m. | #
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Nah, you're being too harsh, DG, Baker Street really isn't THAT bad.
Now I have absolutely no idea which streets you're going to write about tomorrow or Friday...
Venichka | 25.01.06 - 8:20 p.m. | #
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Baker Street may not be BAD, but it's certainly uninspiring, and becoming ever more so.
As for the song, I'm reliably informed that Gerry Rafferty sometimes used to stay with a friend who lived down Baker Street, and that the legendary sax solo is by Raphael Ravenscroft.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 25.01.06 - 8:55 p.m. | #
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Sad to see the Abbey building gone. I used to work there around 20 years back.
goldenlad | Homepage | 25.01.06 - 11:52 p.m. | #
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I've heard that Conan Doyle thought he was being extra salty by putting Holmes in 221b Baker Street, because at the time the first stories were written, Baker Street stopped at the Marylebone Road.
Simon Crubellier | Homepage | 31.01.06 - 1:31 a.m. | #
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