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25 unusual facts about Paddington


Archibald Boyd

For eight years after 1859, he was entrusted with the care of Paddington.

Ben Targett

Benjamin Stuart Targett (born 27 December 1972, in Paddington, New South Wales), is an Australian cricket player, who played for the Tasmanian Tigers from 1997 until 2000.

Brett Ogle

Ogle was born in Paddington, New South Wales, adopted at 6 weeks of age and was brought up in the town of Goulburn.

Brisbane Municipal Concert Band

Rehearsals are currently held at Paddington Hall, 10 Moreton Street, Paddington.

British Transport Hotels

Great Western Royal Hotel, Paddington, London (sold 1983, still operating, now known as Hilton London Paddington)

Cable landing point

The cable landing point in Sydney is Tamarama Beach, some distance from the cable termination station in Paddington.

Electrocardiography

The first to systematically approach the heart from an electrical point-of-view wasAugustus Waller, working in St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, London.

Government House, Brisbane

Government House, or 'Fernberg', is located in the Brisbane suburb of Paddington, in Queensland, Australia.

James Packman

James Russell Packman (born 21 August 1979 in Paddington) is an Australian cricketer who is currently a New South Wales Blues squad member.

Jim Cavanagh

Cavanagh was born in Paddington, South Australia and educated at the Dominican School in Adelaide.

Julie McGregor

After living in Paddington, New South Wales for most of her life, in 2007 McGregor moved to the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney.

Kate Morton

Kate Morton is married to Davin, a jazz musician and composer, and they have two sons; they live in the Brisbane suburb of Paddington.

Kenneth Jacobs

He enlisted in Paddington in 1939, and remained in the service until 1948.

Lanning Roper

Lanning Roper died in Paddington, London, and his ashes were scattered over the gardens at Scotney Castle.

Marshall Rosen

Marshall Frederick Rosen, born 17 September 1948, in Paddington, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, is a former cricket player for New South Wales, and a member of the NSW Cricket Association Board.

Mike Board

He was born in Paddington in Sydney and worked as a clothing manufacturer and wholesaler.

Nick Kruger

Nicholas James Kruger (born 14 August 1983, Paddington, New South Wales) is an Australian cricketer who has played First-class cricket for Queensland and List A cricket for Tasmania.

Omasan Buwa

Buwa was born in Paddington, London, but moved to Nigeria with her mother, a civil servant and chef with the Nigerian Airways at the age of seven.

Paddington, New South Wales

The clock was officially set in motion on Wednesday, 30 August 1905, by Mr. J.H. Carruthers, the Premier of New South Wales, who mentioned in passing that "he thought that the day on which peace had been declared between Russia and Japan was a fitting time to set it in motion" and that "he hoped there would be peace and goodwill on earth as long as the clock continued to go".

These people belonged to the Dharug (or Eora) language group, and were also the traditional owners of what is now the Sydney central business district.

Phibs

He also has been commissioned to decorate a number of buildings across Sydney such as Max Brenner chocolates in Paddington, the Glow Cafe in Newtown and a number of alley ways throughout the city of Sydney.

Russell Walter Fox

He enlisted with the Australian Infantry Force (AIF) on 3 March 1942 at Paddington in Sydney.

The Spooky Men's Chorale

The Spooky Men's Chorale were created by Stephen Taberner and made their first appearance in August 2001 as part of an evening called "This was nearly my life" at Paddington Uniting Church, Sydney.

Wayne Holdsworth

Wayne John Holdsworth (born 5 October 1968 in Paddington, New South Wales) was an Australian first-class cricketer who played for the New South Wales Blues.

William Blundell

Germaine was nearly exposed in 1994 by a Paddington doctor who purchased 11 'Whiteleys' from her for $30,000.


Bakerloo line

By 1913, the line had been extended from its original northern terminus at Baker Street to the west with interchange stations with the Great Central Railway at Marylebone and the Great Western Railway at Paddington, and a new station at Edgware Road.

BBC Choice

It included repeats of archive shows rarely seen on the main channels, such as Mr Benn, Paddington, Simon and the Witch, Ivor the Engine, Jonny Briggs, Pigeon Street, The Family-Ness and Bitsa.

Bertie Blackman

Bertie is the daughter of renowned Australian artist Charles Blackman and grew up in the Inner-East Sydney suburbs of Bondi and Paddington.

British Rail Class 52

The Western Region faced particularly stiff competition for its prime inter-city services in the mid to late 1970s from the M4 motorway and it was generally felt within BR that a significant speed and comfort increase on the prime Paddington-Bristol route were necessary.

Capenhurst railway station

On the former main line from London Paddington to Birkenhead Woodside it is now on the Wirral Line of the Merseyrail network, 5¼ miles (8 km) north of Chester.

Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph

Murder suspect John Tawell was apprehended following the use of a needle telegraph message from Slough to Paddington on 1 January 1845.

Cyril Power

Power also designed and executed a War Memorial for the Great Western Railway at Paddington, London around this time.

Embassy of the People's Republic of China, London

China also maintains several other buildings in London: a Defence Section at 25 Lyndhurst Road, Hampstead, a Commercial Section at 16 Lancaster Gate, Paddington, a Cultural Section at 11 West Heath Road, Hampstead and a Science & Technology Section at 10 Greville Place, Maida Vale.

Fortnum

Peggy Fortnum, English writer and illustrator, notably of Paddington Bear.

Gary Seward

Seward was born in Paddington, London, and started out playing for his secondary school in Rutherford, for whom he was captain.

Great Western Railway accidents

The most serious accident however, occurred on 24 December 1874, when a double-headed passenger train from Paddington to Birkenhead derailed near Kidlington just north of Oxford and 34 passengers were killed.

Jack Comer

In 1956, Spot and his then wife Rita were attacked outside their Paddington home - by "Mad" Frankie Fraser, Bobby Warren.

Jeff Rawle

Rawle has provided numerous narrations including A Bear Called Paddington, three series of the Duchess of York's Budgie the Little Helicopter, Stephen Hawking's Universe and Tom Fort's The Grass is Always Greener for BBC Radio 4.

John Aird

Sir John Aird, 1st Baronet (1833–1911), English engineering contractor associated with Aswan Dam, MP for North Paddington

Joshua Jeays

In 1862, Jeays paid £78 for 16 hectares (39 acres) of land along Simpsons Road, from the corner of Cooper's Camp Road, towards Ithaca Creek and abutting what is now Bowman Park (then known as the 'Cobbler's Flats', because of the abundance of the weed 'cobblers pegs'), west of the area then known as Upper Paddington.

London Fire Brigade

Red Watch: The former ITN newsreader Gordon Honeycombe became friendly with Neil Wallington while he was a station officer at Paddington fire station.

Michel Mossessian

In 2010, Mossessian & Partners completed three buildings: 5 Merchant Square in Paddington, London; ExxonMobil Headquarters in Shanghai, China; and a private residence in Sorede, France.

Paddington Bear's Gold Record

The fifteen songs included on the recording detail many incidents in the books about Paddington written by Michael Bond.

Paddington Green

Paddington Green Police Station, a police station in Paddington, London, United Kingdom

Patina

Even a lasting gold colour is possible with copper-alloy cladding, for example Colston Hall in Bristol, or the Novotel at Paddington Central, London.

Ragavendra R Baliga

He then migrated to the UK in 1988 and worked with Prof Hans Frankel, FRCP and Prof Christopher J Mathias, FRCP at the National Spinal Injuries Center affiliated with Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Aylesbury, Oxford Regional Health Authority and St. Mary’s Medical School, Paddington, London.

Richard Belmar

He was flown into RAF Northolt on 25 January 2005, along with Moazzam Begg, Martin Mubanga and Feroz Abbasi, where he was arrested under the Terrorism Act 2000 and briefly questioned at Paddington Green police station, before being released.

Roger Tompkins

Roger Tompkins (28 February 1952, Paddington, England) is a British television director of series such as The Ray Bradbury Theater.

Soho and Winson Green railway station

Soho & Winson Green was an intermediate station on the Great Western Railway's London (Paddington) to Birkenhead via Birmingham (Snow Hill) line, serving the Soho and Winson Green areas.

South Ruislip station

The GWR/GCR Joint line to High Wycombe carried services from both Paddington and Marylebone.

Spital railway station

Spital railway station, on the former main line from Birkenhead Woodside to London Paddington, is situated near Bebington on the Wirral Peninsula, England in the small suburb of Spital.

St Philip's Marsh

Owned by Network Rail under depot code PM, it is leased to train operator First Great Western, and has been used since their introduction for the maintenance of InterCity 125 trains operating between London Paddington, Bristol and South Wales.

The Forgotten Garden

Morton was also inspired by her own home, which sits on a Paddington hillside, and the mysterious Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall.