Can you find monuments and memorials and museums relating to Sherlock Holmes, hymn writer Charles Wesley and musicians? Elementary, dear traveller and tourist. Major London stations such as Euston have a map of the area on the station wall and a leaflet you can pick up showing the various station exits and nearby streets and landmarks. (For example, Euston station.)
If you are arriving on the Metropolitan, Bakerloo or Jubilee lines. The Bakerloo line is named after the fact that it starts in the north at Baker Street and runs south to Waterloo.
Start at Baker Street station.
1 Admire Sherlock Holmes tiles on the underground at Baker Street station arriving on the Jubilee line. This pattern is just one of the artworks you can see. Several more feature Sherlock Holmes.
If you are arriving on the Metropolitan, Bakerloo or Jubilee lines. The Bakerloo line is named after the fact that it starts in the north at Baker Street and runs south to Waterloo.
Start at Baker Street station.
1 Admire Sherlock Holmes tiles on the underground at Baker Street station arriving on the Jubilee line. This pattern is just one of the artworks you can see. Several more feature Sherlock Holmes.
2 Admire the statue of Sherlock Holmes. 
Also in this area are The Sherlock Holmes Hotel and The Sherlock Holmes Museum.
3 Royal Academy of Music on same side as Madame Tussauds, seen from the other side when returning at night. The complex contains another building housing a museum open to the public which contains many stringed instruments, some made by the Stradivarius family. Also many manuscripts by famous composers such as Felix Mendelssohn (who wrote the Wedding March, the one that descends, not the one parodied as 'Here comes the bride' which is by Wagner.)
This building is not the Royal College of Music which is in Kensington.
4 Monument to Charles Wesley, on the right as you turn into Marylebone Road.
MORE TO READ
http://www.sherlock-holmes.co.uk (Sherlock Holmes museum website)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Academy_of_Music_Museum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Wesley
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1 comment:
Thank you for the post. For more on Charles Wesley, I would like to invite you to the website for the book series, The Asbury Triptych Series. The trilogy based on the life of Francis Asbury, the young protégé of John Wesley and George Whitefield, opens with the book, Black Country. The opening novel in this three-book series details the amazing movement of Wesley and Whitefield in England and Ireland as well as its life-changing effect on a Great Britain sadly in need of transformation. Black Country also details the Wesleyan movement's effect on the future leader of Christianity in the American colonies, Francis Asbury. The website for the book series is www.francisasburytriptych.com. Please enjoy the numerous articles on the website. Again, thank you, for the post.
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