| 1 |
Introduction |
| 2 |
The Place Where Four Roads Meet |
| 6 |
The Paddington Almshouse Stone |
| 12 |
Paddington in the 18th Century |
| 16 |
The Bishop of London's Estate |
| 23 |
The New Road, 1757 |
| 26 |
Thomas Paine Builds a Bridge |
| 27 |
Artists at the turn of the century |
| 32 |
Milne Land Usage in 1800 |
| 34 |
Paddington Canal, 1801 |
| 39 |
The Regent's Canal |
| 47 |
Lisson Green, 1800-1850 |
| 55 |
Westbourne Farm |
| 62 |
Paddington Railway arrives |
| 64 |
Transport maps from Roman times to today |
| 66 |
Diary of William Tayler - Footman |
| 66 |
The Duke of Wellington's Statue |
| 68 |
Tyburnia and Bayswater |
| 74 |
St John's Wood |
| 78 |
Queen's Park |
| 83 |
Beethoven Street School |
| 87 |
The Neeld Estate |
| 94 |
The 1881 Census |
| 97 |
St Mary Magdalene |
| 101 |
A Canal Family |
| 104 |
Local Wrought Iron and Cast Iron |
| 109 |
Lisson Grove, 1850-1900 |
| 113 |
Local Industry |
| 113 |
The Goad maps |
| 117 |
Eliza Dolittle in Lisson Grove |
| 119 |
Philanthropic Housing |
| 123 |
Octavia Hill and Southwood Smith |
| 126 |
Wells in Bell Street |
| 127 |
Octavia Hill and The Elijah Hoole Cottages in Ranston Street |
| 128 |
The Margherita Rabuffi memoir |
| 133 |
The Booth Poverty Maps |
| 143 |
Mansion Flats |
| 144 |
Christchurch House, Shroton Street |
| 146 |
Paddington Recreation Ground |
| 151 |
The Grand Central Railway and Lord's |
| 153 |
Maida Vale |
| 155 |
After the First World War: Municipal and Philanthropic Housing |
| 160 |
Bomb Damage in World War II |
| 185 |
Rebuilding after the War Two |
| 169 |
Roger Mayne's photographs of Paddington |
| 170 |
Hallfield Estate & Hallfield School - architect, Denys Lasdun |
| 172 |
Wharncliffe Gardens and Lisson Grove Estate |
| 175 |
Queen's Park after 1967 |
| 181 |
Westway |
| 183 |
Ulster Terrace - John Nash and Pentagram, architects |
| 185 |
Philological & Ragged Schools to Comprehensive |
| 201 |
The Walterton and Elgin Estate, WECH |
| 215 |
Refurbishing Dudley House in 1988 |
| 216 |
New housing on old school sites |
| 221 |
Peabody Building, Bell Street |
| 221 |
Octavia [Hill] House, Homer Street |
| 222 |
Renovating Bayswater |
| 223 |
The First Metropole Hotel Extension - John Laing plc, contractors |
| 226 |
The Great Canal Freeze |
| 227 |
Paddington Basin. New plans in the 1960s |
| 228 |
Paddington Basin; Renewed plans in the 1980s |
| 230 |
Paddington Basin: A new Master Plan in 1997 |
| 232 |
The Old Loading Building reused and the site razed |
| 234 |
Purdey's Shotgun Factory |
| 236 |
The Second Metropole Hotel Extension - John Laing plc, contractors |
| 238 |
Draining the Basin |
| 240 |
New buildings on Paddington Basin |
| 241 |
The Point -Farrell and Partners, architects |
| 242 |
West Quay, Praed Street - Broadway Malyan, architects |
| 244 |
The new Paddington Station -Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners, architects |
| 246 |
Grand Junction House - Richard Rogers Partners -architects |
| 250 |
Bishop's Bridge Road and Bridges |
| 251 |
The Paddington Goods Yard site - Sidell Gibson Partnership, architects |
| 252 |
The Point, Farrell & Partners, architects |
| 253 |
St Mary's Hospital and Paddington Children's Hospital New Buildings - Skidmore Ownings & Merrill, architects |
| 256 |
The 1891 Goad plan of Paddington Basin |
| 257 |
The Model of Paddington Basin in 2010. |
| 258 |
The Montage of Paddington Basin in May 2001 - the bicentenary year. |
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A Walk around the Modern Paddington Basin |