Sherlock's Home: 221B Baker Street

Holmes and Watson, at the time of this story, were lodging together at 221B Baker Street. This is how they came to be friends- they arranged to split the cost of the room with one another. The story of how they met, thanks to young Stamford, is recounted in the first published tale A Study in Scarlet. They were introduced at the chemical laboratory of a London hospital, where there is now a plaque on the wall that states:

At this place New Years Day, 1881
Were Spoken These Deathless Words
"YOU HAVE BEEN IN AFGHANISTAN, I PERCIEVE."
By Mr. Sherlock Holmes
In Greeting To
John H. Watson, M.D.
At Their First Meeting

221B Baker Street was the place Holmes was looking for someone to split the rent with, at he same time that Watson was looking for a cheaper place to stay, consisted of a 'couple of cofortable bedrooms and a large airy sitting-room, cheerfully furnished and illuminated by two broad windows.' A reconstruction of this sitting room is pictured below.

(Keating 27)