Paddington (London)
 
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Location of Paddington in Greater London |
Paddington is a borough of London in the City of Westminster district . The name is derived from the Old English Padda for Patrick , ing for "place of" and do for "farm, estate" and was first mentioned in 1056.
building
Important buildings in Paddington are Paddington Railway Station , St. Mary's Hospital and its nursing school and the Paddington Green Police Station, a high security police station. On October 10, 1992, the IRA bombed the phone booth in front of the station.
population
Paddington is one of the social centers of the Indian subcontinent people in London. There is a great density of grocery and other shops and restaurants of Indian , Pakistani and Sri Lankan origins.
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the district
The mathematician and cryptanalyst Alan Turing (1912–1954) comes from Paddington . A plaque dedicated to him is on the house where he was born on Warrington Crescent.
Paddington is the birthplace of landscape photographer Charlie Waite , mathematician William Burnside , singer Seal and actress Rhona Mitra .
People in connection with the district
Several famous people worked in Paddington, including the inventor of penicillin , Alexander Fleming , who is commemorated by a plaque at St. Mary's Hospital on Praed Street. Edward Adrian Wilson , the doctor who died on the Antarctic expedition with Robert Falcon Scott , lived and worked here for a while.
John Clifford (1836–1923) was pastor of the Baptist Church in Paddington until 1915. He became known as a representative of politically committed and social Christianity. In 1905 he was appointed the first president of the Baptist World Federation . The painter Lucian Freud lived in Paddington from 1944 to 1977.
Paddington is also the residence of Seals , Courtney Pines and Elvis Costellos , the soccer player Les Ferdinand and the actors Emma Thompson and Rhona Mitra .
References in literature
Probably the best-known reference to Paddington is made in Michael Bond's books about Paddington Bear , which is named after Paddington train station.
Detective writer Agatha Christie used the name in the title of her Miss Marple novel 4:50 p.m. from Paddington .
In addition, it is mentioned in Henry James' novella In the Cage that the young protagonist without a name imitates the Paddington dialect (chapters 22-23).
Paddington Railway Station
The Paddington Station is one of the main stations in London and is mostly of commuters from the West London ( Slough , Maidenhead , Reading , Swindon used). There are major transport links to Oxford , Bristol , Bath , Taunton , Exeter , Plymouth , Cornwall and South Wales ( Cardiff and Swansea ) as well as the Heathrow Express to Heathrow Airport .
There is a statue of Paddington Bear in the concourse.
