The Inevitable in Paddington: Paddington Bear

It's not all that easy to get a shot of the bear with kids climbing over it.

'Please look

after this

BEAR THANK YOU'

 

'WANTED

ON VOYAGE'

'Mr. and Mrs. Brown first met Paddington

on a railway platform.

In fact, that was how he came to have

such an unusual name for a bear,

for Paddington was the name of the station.

 

From "A Bear Called Paddington" by Michael Bond

 

So began Paddington Bear's long association with this station'

 

Well, he seems a lot more fun to me than Platform 9¾ at King's Cross.

Sustrans' Portrait Bench, Paddington

Sustrans' Portrait Bench is an ongoing project, the creation of a series of nationwide sculptures that when completed will total 230 figures. The three figures here are in Paddington about a half mile from the station and in a grassy area at the side of St Mary's church. Below I quote from a little circular plaque bolted to the side of a bench:

 

'Alan Turing OBE, FRS 1912–1954

Father of computer science,

WWII code-breaker who led cryptanalysis

of the Enigma Machine'

 

'Mary Seacole 1805–1881

Nursed wounded soldiers

on the battlefield during the Crimean War'

'Michael Bond OBE

Author and creator of the beloved

children's character

Paddington Bear'