Is Paddington primarily a station, or possibly a marmalade-addicted small bear from darkest Peru? Was it carved out by an Anglo-Saxon chieftain called Padda? What connects it to medical breakthroughs, or the stage, or even Roman London? Pete Smith addresses these and many other questions.

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For access to this lecture at Guildhall Library, enter the Guildhall complex by the West Wing entrance on the corner of Aldermanbury and Gresham Street.