Sherlock Landmarks on a walk from Baker Street Station (to Marylebone High Street & Back)

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.

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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Waitrose Hot Curry and hand wash Gel at The White Company Shop's cooling Perfumed Hand Wash in Marylebone High Street

The White Shop sells aromatic soaps (£6) and shower gels and room refreshers. 

My favourites include Seychelles. It's rather expensive for every day but if you are looking for a birthday, wedding anniversary, or Christmas present and want something small enough to go in a Christmas stocking, here's one answer.

The household items include a spray or an infuser with what looks like incense sticks. Very good if you've had somebody smoking or causing another unpleasant smell (a dog, a person, mould, an empty house, for house owners, parents, morning after the party before. Also useful for a landlord freshening up for house viewings when renting looking for a new tenant - or a letting agent. A cheaper version is from IKEA.) The White Shops's rose and lavender are good.

An assistant will locate the tester for the aroma you want and spray onto your hand or hers or a piece of paper.

Waitrose Hot Food
Across the road from the White Company is a Waitrose supermarket. This branch does not have a cafe. (If you want a cafe, there's on in the Waitrose almost opposite South Harrrow station - about 500 metres from that station.). However, the Marylebone branch has a counter serving takeaway hot Indian food, rice and curries, at reasonable prices.

If you want to sit down for coffee between Marylebone High Street and Baker Street station, see my next post about Moxon street, a few paces further, offering meat and pies at The Ginger Pig, fresh fruit, cheeses, and cake and coffee at La Fromagerie, and chocolates at Rococo.