CHARLTON HESTON!!
COMPLAINTS MEETING RESULT
A.62. Mr. Crayson, two-week suspension. Booming a job at Shepherd’s Bush Rank.

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THE LONDONER
   As our office are in the Paddington area, I thought it might be a good thing to have a little of its history. In the 19^th century Paddington was a very rural district; in fact it was noted for its agriculture, and indeed, most of its occupants derived their from it. The lands of Paddington were given to the Church in every early time by the Saxon King Edgar. At the
dawn of the 19^th century once you left Marble Arch there wasn’t a house to be seen until you came to Craven Hill. What a difference today, Bayswater Road and Oxford Street comprise the longest and straightest road through London; even today its length is nearly two miles. It was along the Bayswater Road that the first tramway in London was built in 1860 by A Mr. George Train, his tramway had one great disadvantage, i.e., it ran on raised rails, these proved such a nuisance that it only lasted one year and was removed. Also in Bayswater Road, just before Albia Street, is one of the smallest and narrowest houses in London, no more than 52ft. wide.
   Lancaster Gate stands on the site of Hopwood’s Nursery Ground and the Victoria Tea Gardens, this being a favourite place for sports meetings. The area around Lancaster Gate called Craven Hill takes it name from Lord Craven who during the plague of London gave a site in St. Martins in the Field as a plague pit, in exchange he was given a field covering Craven Gardens, which if London is ever visited by the plague again will still be available for a plague pit.
   When Paddington Station was first built it was the furthest main line terminal from London, this was because in the pioneer days of the railway, the Commissioners who were set up to investigate this subject were adamant that it should not interfere with the well being of the inhabitants, what a change from today. Right up until 1821, what is now Queensway was called Blackman Lane, Whiteleys the famous store was founded in 1863 by Mr. William Whiteley a Rochdale man, in 1907 he was shot dead by Horace George Rayner who was under the impression that he was his illegitimate son.
   Westbourne Grove up until the Eighties of the last century was a very fashionable shopping centre; Lawrence’s the furnishing store occupies the original site of Whiteleys.
   The canal at Paddington used to just over a century ago provide a means of transport to Uxbridge, the fare was 1s. for six miles, 1s. 6d. for 10miles and 2s. 6d. all the way to Uxbridge, breakfast being provided abroad.