VicLondon-Paddington
Paddington, the West End
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This area was one of the last to see heavy development. Church Commissioners owned most of Paddington, speci cally under the direction of the Bishop of London. The area is comprised of new housing, much of it split up for ats that are rented by lower and middle-class who work in Bayswater or the great houses in Kensington and Marylebone.
Paddington is also one of the main terminals for the railways going north out of London. Paddington Station, a massive iron and glass building provides transit for good and people coming into London, and is close to the Bishop Street Station of the Underground (one of the rst stations for underground rail system). Using the tube, one can get to any of the stations in London within an hour. This is one of the reasons many respectable working-class families live in Paddington. They are far away from the crime and lth of the East End and the factory areas in Southwark, but can get to work cheaply and quickly using the underground. Also a draw is St. Mary’s Hospital, an Anglican-run in rmary with special rates for the poor.
Crime in the area is, to many of the upper-class, surprisingly low. These poorer folk that live in Paddington, however, are mostly honest and hard-working, and are hoping to improve themselves and their children by living in a cleaner, safer neighbourhood.
