Baker Street


A Topographical and Statistical description of the County of Middlesex, etc (1810) by George Alexander Cooke

The Workhouse of this parish is particularly deserving of notice. It is situated in the Paddington New Road, near the upper end of Baker Street. It was built in 1775, and contains sometimes more than' 1000 persons. This house and the Infirmary adjoining, as a parochial concern, excite admiration. The workshops, wash-house, laundry, wards, kitchen, bakehouse, chapel, and officers' room's, are excellently adapted to their different purposes. Dr. Hooper, the medical resident, politely shews the whole to any medical or other gentlemen applying to him for the purpose.

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Quotations
 Chapter 5 
“Ah! you carry it off very well, but I cannot be quite so far imposed on. You must have had Miss Anderson in your eye, in describing an altered young lady. You paint too accurately for mistake. It was exactly so. The Andersons of Baker Street. We were speaking of them the other day, you know. Edmund, you have heard me mention Charles Anderson. The circumstance was precisely as this lady has represented it. When Anderson first introduced me to his family, about two years ago, his sister was not out, and I could not get her to speak to me.”
 

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