Celebrating a British icon 19
North of Marylebone Road is
the modern-style office block
that was once the Abbey National
building society’s headquarters.
Its range of street numbers
(219–229) takes in the fictitious
home of Sherlock Holmes, 221b,
though this part of the street
had not been built when Conan
Doyle’s books were written.
After the inevitable queue to
cross Marylebone Road, we
continue north past Georgian
terraces into elegant and leafy
Park Street, which runs along
the western side of Regent’sLondon by Bus
LEFT: The thick
window pillars
viewed from inside
the top-deck.LEFT: A
northbound 13 in
the fast moving
traffic that
characterises the
dual carriageway
Park Lane along
the north-eastern
edge of Hyde Park.LEFT: Marks &
Spencer’s store on
the corner on the
corner of Oxford
Street and Orchard
Street, passed by
southbound buses
on the 13.