5/19/2023 0 Comments A bear called paddington![]() ![]() Who died this week at the age of ninety-one. The name now belongs, ofĬourse, to Paddington Bear, the enduring and beloved creation of Bond, Ruled by a now-forgotten chief named Padda. ![]() Most likely is of Anglo-Saxon origin, referring to a geographical area ![]() Precise etymology of the place name Paddington is obscure, though it Is situated, a settlement dating back more than a thousand years. Paddington Station-which connects WalesĪnd western England with London-is named for the area of London where it When Michael Bond, a BBC cameraman and part-time writer,Ĭonceived of a story, in the late nineteen-fifties, in which a smallīear from South America arrived in London, he chose Paddington StationĪs the place where the creature would be found, and thence adopted, byĪn English family, the Browns. Three-Quarters-the location at King’s Cross station where students boundįor Hogwarts depart by marching full tilt at a wall-another children’sĪuthor had imbued another major London railway station with perpetual ![]() Rowling’s exhilarating invention, twenty years ago, of Platform Nine and In the figure of Paddington Bear, Michael Bond, who died this week, depicted the struggles that a new arrival to any land faces. ![]()
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