MARYLEBONE PART 2 (CONTAINS NO FABS)
Baker Street is one of the original stations of the Metropolitan Railway , the world's first underground line. It opened on 10 January 1863. Sherlock Holmes museum (12): Sherlock Holmes statue (13): 2, Upper Wimpole Street (15): In this house the remarkable Arthur Conan Doyle opened his ophthalmic practice in 1891. Although he is usually referred to as Conan Doyle, Conan is his middle name. As a qualified physician he believed vaccination should be compulsory. Conan Doyle was also an accomplished all-round sportsman and played ten matches for the MCC (Marylebone Cricket Club, see below) as a batsman and occasional bowler. He only took one first class wicket – that of the legendary W G Grace. He was hugely interested in the paranormal and firmly believed his friend Harry Houdini had supernatural powers despite the fact Houdini himself insisted all his tricks were i...