Baker Street

So Baker Street evokes the Gerry Raferty song well for me any way, but it seems like a destination that's a simple street- a place to change tube lines, or drive through to get to somewhere, or if you're a tourist a way to get to Madam Tussauds, but theres a lot more to it than meets the eye... for example Political liberators of Latin America from Peru, a Prime Minister and famous Novelists including H.G. Wells lived on Baker Street. Two of the Beatles worked in a flat there.. theres so much more.. check out the pics...

William Pitt the Younger was the UK's youngest prime minister at age 24

 in 1783

William Pitt the Younger- thus called because the Elder also shared the same name and also had served as Prime Minister  of Great Britian in 1766.
William Pitt the Younger served as PM a second time in 1804-1806, so it was at this time he lived here on Baker Street.

 Just a little way down you can see the plaque which shows where the Beatles, John Lennon and George Harrison worked. It have only recently been updated to show George Harrison and had only listed John Lennon as the grafter of this abode.
Perhaps this is where Rafferty worked too? Just an absolute random guess, I have no idea.

 On the edge of Marylebone and Baker Street, a Peruvian Essayist Juan Pablo Viscardo y Guzman is celebrated for residing in Baker Street on what now stands as a bank from 1748-1749, it states he was a herald of Latin American Independence and lived and died on Baker Street.
In fact  Juan Pablo Viscardo y Guzman was considered to have played a crucial role in Latin-British relations. he was an integral component of getting Peruvian independence. Moreover he was staunchly against Spanish Colonialism.
"In 1791 he came to London, sponsored by the British Government to give account of the development of Latin America’s pursuit of independence.

Political Latin Roots in Baker Street

Guzman wrote several important essays during his time in London promoting freedom for the Spanish Colonies, including “Letter to Spanish Americans” (1792) and “Peace and Prosperity in a New World” (1796), in which he criticises Spanish colonialism and its economic control."
Just goes to show London's long history of multiculturalism and its acceptance of freedom fighters.
Isn't Julian Assange in another Latin American Embassy? Is he a freedom fighter? Discuss...

Arnold Bennet Lived, worked and died here.. very graphic plaques

Famous Authors Arnold Bennett and H.G. Wells seem to occupy abodes in the same building at Chiltern Court, Arnold Bennett, from 1867-1931, lived, worked and died there. Bennett worked with his father but when that didn't work out he came to London to work as a solicitor, he also went into journalism and of course is a award winning novelist. He spent time in Paris and then back to London, where he died of Typhoid in this very building. His daughter is now the president of the Arnold Bennett Society, who sponsored the plaque.

Chiltern Court, right by the Tube

H.G. Wells who only 'lived' there between 1930-1936. Best known for his science fiction works include The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, The Invisible Man and The Island of Doctor Moreau. Also lived in the building, the pub across the street "the Globe" is said to have been freqented by him after a long days writing no doubt!

How much of this did you know, tourist or Londoner about Baker Streets multi faceted treasures?

Okay so you all know about Shelock Holmes, and the fake museum that they created to make money...(okay I'm a cynic, but you do know that he's a character from books by Arthur Conan Doyle- and only fictionally resided in Baker Street right?) 

Architectually the building is appreciated and protected as it rightly should be, because the building is a beauty and apparently in the 'museum' there is a study 'faithfully maintained for posterity as it was kept in Victorian Times" 

I couldn't tell you if it was worth a vist or those super mega queues, even in the rain.. but maybe you can let me know, because I think there's much more thats going on down this one stretch of road than probably in that whole building, though people dressed in costume looks fun.

Here's Sherlock Holmes' massive statue, ready to greet you from the tube.

That's elementary my dear Baker Street.