As it is Friday see
http://library.thinkquest.org/17419/baker/bakerstreet-uk.htm
"The international Sherlock Holmes company stands behind the establishment
of this little museum dedicated to sir Artur Conan Doyles famous and dearly
beloved nosy parker, one of the worldlitterature first detectivesshapes.
Holmes famous flat in Baker Street is here reconstructed with his personal
properties and souvenirs from some of his biggest cases. Readers of the
stories by Sherlock Holmes will remember, that Holmes´correct address is
221b Baker Street but that housenumber hase never existed. On the other hand
there is a memorial tabtet on the facade of Abbey National bank, where the
house should have seen Abbey National has a fulltime person employed in
order to have a look at the huge number of letters from all over the globe
addressed to Holmes." (their typing - not mine)
I drive past it regularly and the HQ of the Abbey National is now not even a
facade as the place is being rebuilt although the clocktower has been
retained on a platform.
See also Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/221B_Baker_Street which
tells us that in Conan Doyle's time this part of Baker Street was actually
known as Upper Baker Street.
It also tells us:
"The Sherlock Holmes Museum is housed in an 1815 house very similar to the
fictional 221B. Opened in 1990, it displays exhibits in period rooms, wax
figures and Holmesian memorabilia. Confusingly, both Abbey House and the
Sherlock Holmes Museum both declared themselves to be the "real" 221B. This
was the somewhat messy outcome of a dispute between the two in 1994, when
the museum applied unsuccessfully for permission to renumber itself 221.
Both have a claim: Abbey House is where 221B could have been, had it ever
existed; and the museum is where mail addressed to Holmes is actually
delivered."
Well, it all adds to the gaiety of life.
Nick Landau
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From: "Andrew Charlesworth" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 1:01 PM
Subject: Re: [data-protection] checking individual's identity
> As it's Friday, one might also be interested in doing a whois on the
> domain name <foolthem.com>, and comparing the address of the
> administrative contact listed:
>
> Mary Smith
> 193 market street
> cheshire, sk111hf
> GB
>
> with the fifth and sixth addresses from the bottom of the first list of
> addresses on this page...
>
> <http://www.ico.gov.uk/eventual.aspx?id=4016>
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> One might wonder also about the validity of the domain name registrant
> address.
>
> sharron wass
> 221 Baker Street
> London, london sw1 1aa
> GB
>
> My London A-Z shows only one Baker Street, and as far as I recall, 221
> Baker Street was the head office of Abbey National, and is now the address
> of the Sherlock Holmes Museum (and it's in NW1). Interestingly, if the
> data in the whois entry is by some misfortune incorrect, the registrant or
> the administrative contact is in breach of their agreement with their
> domain name registrar <www.register.com> - not, I guess, that this really
> matters given the state of domain registration these days.
>
>
>
> --On 27 April 2006 20:44 +0100 Simon Howarth <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Good grief!
>>
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>> Anyone undertaking formal checks of identity for purposes such as release
>> of personal data might be interested in/concerned by the following
>> website - www.foolthem.com
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