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One of the most famous addresses in the world is the number of 221b Baker Street in London, because it is here, according to Arthur Conan Doyle, lived a long time and improved his deductive famous detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr. Watson. Thousands of people write letters to Holmes, the clubs organize and arrange meetings in his honor. In 1990, Baker Street, the museum was opened Sherlock Holmes, and eventually the hero of the novel appeared very real house.

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1. All starts from the metro station Baker Street. There we were met by a familiar silhouette with a curved tube and a hat hunter deer, which is usually worn in rural England during the deer hunting





2. Leave the famous - busy street length of two and a half kilometers, located in the administrative district of Westminster.



3. Here, everything is about the great detective.



4. Sherlock Holmes Museum is located in the four-storey Victorian-style home built in 1815 and submitted to the list of buildings of architectural and historical value of the 2nd class.



5. By the way, right next to the store is dedicated to the Liverpool quartet the Beatles, and in front of him - shop of rock music.



6. This number at the house-museum - № 239, but the creators of the museum have a special email address: 221b, Baker Street, London, NW1 6XE. Thus, the numbering houses on Baker Street got off a little bit, that long troubled local bureaucrats. But today, all mail addressed to Sherlock comes to this museum.



7. From the novels of Conan Doyle know that Holmes and Watson lived in Baker Street from 1881 to 1904. The building of the museum were rented furnished room from 1860 to 1934, which is consistent with the above-mentioned dates.



8. Admission to the museum is £ 6 for adults and 4 - for children, and it is open every day except Christmas.



9. As I said, the house-museum has four floors. On the ground floor there is a souvenir shop and a small front. On the second floor - living room and bedroom Holmes. On the third - rooms Watson and Mrs. Hudson, the hostess and owner of the house. On the fourth floor there are wax figures of various characters from the novels. There is also a small loft which houses the bathroom.

He describes living Conan Doyle's novel "A Study in Scarlet»:
"The next day we met at the appointed hour, and went to see an apartment on Baker Street, No 221-B, which Holmes said yesterday. The apartment had two comfortable bedrooms and a spacious, bright and comfortably furnished living room with two large windows. "



10. In fact, it was Watson's first impression is not entirely accurate - living room was not so great. Sherlock in one fell swoop covered the distance from the bedroom to the window in the living room when needed zadёrnut curtains. In addition, a detective once granted a visitor so big that it almost filled the entire room.



11. But the room and Holmes used more as a personal account (Watson first had to be removed to him, when the detective took clients) and as a dining room. That breakfast Sherlock once Watson outlined the principles of his method of analysis and deduction.



12. In the living room you can find a huge amount of items associated with the characters of novels, Holmes felt hat (which he could not wear in London, otherwise would have seemed ridiculous) and Dr Watson bowler, pipe, violin, magnifying glass, notebook, chemicals and equipment, Persian slippers (which Holmes sometimes kept tobacco), etc.



13. The collection tubes.



14. Unusual statues.



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16. On the third floor there is a room Doctor Watson.



17. You can scroll through the notes by Watson and, in particular, passages from the novel "The Hound of the Baskervilles." A chair, which you can watch here, was used as an illustrator Sidney Paget to create an image of Sherlock Holmes sitting. Paget was the most famous illustrator of London's detective adventures. It was he who came up with the famous image of Sherlock - a tall, lean man with a felt hat and a Scottish cloak.



18. Books on medicine belonging to the Doctor. We know that Sherlock Holmes did not read fiction, and not interested in philosophy and astronomy, but had a working knowledge of anatomy and geology and deep knowledge in chemistry and criminal chronicle.



19. Mrs. Hudson's room is above the living room, and its windows are located on Baker Street. I was struck by the presence of a real fire, which also worked and crackled merrily. I'm not sure that it is correct in terms of fire safety, but as atmospheric!



20. It is interesting exhibition is a bronze bust of the great detective. In addition, in a special book, you can leave your impressions and suggestions.



21. Bust of Napoleon from the story "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons".



22. Now let's examine a collection of wax figures. That red-haired moneylender Jabez Wilson rewrites the Encyclopaedia Britannica in "The Red-Headed League."



23. Mr. Neville St. Clair has been a professional beggar in the story "The Man with the Twisted Lip" and Dr. Grimsby Roylott just stepped on their own rakes and died from the bite of a viper in the marsh "motley belt."



24. Professor Moriarty, head of the London underworld and the sworn enemy of the detective in "Sherlock Holmes latter case."



25. Head Hound of the Baskervilles, the legendary ghost dog, supposedly pursuing the Baskervilles kind, from the same novel.



26. Holmes and Watson rescued a woman from an agonizing death in "The Disappearance of Lady Frances Karfeks."



27. It remains only to go down to the gift shop on the ground floor - buy some trifle or completely free to carry out a business card Sherlock. Suddenly you will need?



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