That's like one of those "Now there is" jokes/stories.
Search for "there was no 221 Baker Street during the years of the Sherlock Holmes stories".
Search for "there was no 221 Baker Street during the years of the Sherlock Holmes stories".
Some authors can't always go to this level of detail. For example J. K. Rowling was in Scotland when writing the first Harry Potter book, as a result she describes Kings Cross from memory, confusing it with another London Station, so her description of it does match the real world location.