Paddington in Literature and Film
Seventeenth-century Paddington is one of the settings in the fiction-based-on-fact novel 'A Spurious Brood', which tells the story of Katherine More, whose children were transported to America on board the Pilgrim Fathers' ship, the Mayflower.
Paddington Bear, from deepest, darkest Peru, immigrated to England via Paddington Station.
The films The Blue Lamp (1950) and Never Let Go (1960) depict many Paddington streets, which suffered bombing in World War II and were subsequently demolished in the early 1960s to make way for the Westway elevated road and the Warwick Estate housing redevelopment.
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