St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, London
Paddington was deeply rural in 1814 when Priscilla Wakefield wrote in her diary: "From Kensington we journeyed northward to Paddington, a village situated on the Edgware Road, about a mile from London."
24 years later, it was to this village outside of London the Brunel built a railway to Maidenhead in 1838.
Ten years after that, Paddington had become part of the London housing sprawl and St Mary's Hospital was built in 1851.
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