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Paddington Station, built 1852 - 1854, is the name of the railway station in Central London near the home of Michael Bond, the BBC cameraman who

"found the last bear"

on a shelf in a Selfridge's store on December 24, 1956. (I wasn't two months old yet) He was inspired to write 8 episodes in one week. And the rest, as they say, is history.

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