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.