Baker Street

Detective's London thoroughfare

Baker Street is a street in central London, famous as the fictional address of Sherlock Holmes at 221B.

The name evokes Victorian detective work and deductive reasoning: a Baker Street mystery, playing at Baker Street.

The street is also home to Madame Tussauds wax museum and the Sherlock Holmes Museum.

Sherlock

Holmes

Fictional London investigator

sleuth · clues · magnifying glass · deerstalker · pipe · Moriarty · Scotland Yard · Baskerville · hounds · casebook

Marylebone

London

England's capital city

Madame Tussauds · Selfridges · Georgian · terraces

song

saxophone

Reed instrument, brass body

melody · instrumental solo · hook · refrain · classic rock · airplay · vinyl · riff · Scottish · smooth

Categories
Opposites
fictional detective residences/methodologies

Baker StreetDowning Street

British premier's official residence

Scotland Yard · Tower of London · Buckingham Palace

order vs. crime

Baker StreetProfessor Moriarty

fictional detective residences vs real investigative locations

Baker StreetScotland Yard

London police headquarters

Quantico · Langley · police precinct · crime lab · forensics unit

Family

bake, street, baking, baked, baker, bakery, streets, bakes, half-baked

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G