Tag: Baker Street
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How Gail’s Uses Spending Data to Reshape London’s High Streets
Walk down enough London high streets and a pattern begins to emerge. The same pale wood. The same careful stacks of sourdough. The same quiet hum of people who look like they have somewhere to be, but not urgently. A Gail’s has arrived. It rarely feels accidental. Nor, increasingly, does it feel purely organic. Because behind the…
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The 1971 Baker Street Robbery
The Baker Street Robbery, was an audacious bank robbery which occurred on, or to be more accurate, below Baker Street in the autumn of 1971. No weapons were brandished, nor were any alarms triggered. Yet the gang who committed the heist managed to make off with an absolute fortune. The valuables stolen were estimated to…
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Sherlock Holmes Museum
With the BBC series starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes, the Hollywood Blockbusters with Robert Downey as Sherlock and the American series that moves Sherlock to New York and has Lucy Liu as a female Dr Watson, Sherlock Holmes has never been so popular, so why not visit his original home? Sherlock Holmes, the worlds…