EAW006461 ENGLAND (1947). Paddington Station and environs, Paddington, from the west, 1947

Gloucester Arms, 212 Gloucester Terrace, Paddington W2. Tied to MEUX' Horseshouse Brewery Closed in the 1960s now demolished.

The Stafford (PH) Tied to Charrington. Demolished with most of the area in a Compulsory Purchase Order by the newly formed GLC (August 1965)

Porchester Road

Bayswater Synagogue

Berkeley Square

The Maze Hotel pub

Kinnaird Street. Along with many other Paddington and Harrow Road streets, it features in the 1950 film The Blue Lamp. ReelStreets shows captures from the film as well as "now" shots of the same locations.

Holy Trinity Church

New red lion pub W2 (Photo; Julian Harris)

Westbourne square,paddington. Site levelled by german V1 flying bomb. Site occupied by prefab dwellings. Map from "The london county council bomb damage maps 1939-1945" book by Lawrence ward

Six months from the time of this photo and Paddington station will pass into national ownership. Unique among all the London termini Paddington belonged to one railway company only. Unlike the other companies the GWR was never, throughout its entire existence, absorbed or amalgamated. Paddington station itself owes its existence to the bitter rivalry between the GWR and the London & Birmingham because the Great Western Railway Act of 1835 didn't envisage a station at Paddington, but a common terminus at Euston. A temporary station was built from which trains commenced running on 4th August 1838, and lasted some 16 years. Paddington station over the years became something of a tourist attraction because of its bold design. It was also the first public building in London to be illuminated by electricity, from November 1880. The Station originally consited of 3 huge spans and in 1913 work began to provide a fourth span to accommodate platforms 10-12. From 1908 up until 1934, with the exception of the war years, the GWR carried out almost continuous improvements to the station and its approaches.

The grand Kinema / Gaumont cinema Edgware road (closed 1961) for the westway flyover

Lord hills bridge

St Pancras station

Marylebone Station

Westminster Council House, Marylebone Road - formerly Marylebone Town Hall

Tower Bridge

Shot Tower - site of the Festival of Britain

Regent Street

Paddington canal Basin

Hyde Park

Little Venice

Ranelagh Bridge stabling point

Pickering Place, now Queensway.

Regent's Park

British Museum

Saint Paul's Cathedral