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Montague Street

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The street beside the British Museum where young Holmes had his first rooms in London, before Baker Street.

When I first came up to London I had rooms in Montague Street, just round the corner from the British Museum, and there I waited, filling in my too abundant leisure time by studying all those branches of science which might make me more efficient.

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A Georgian terrace of small hotels and houses along the east side of the British Museum, which is free to enter. Nearest stations: Russell Square and Holborn.

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