{"id":1829,"date":"2015-07-08T09:08:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T09:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1829"},"modified":"2015-07-08T09:08:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T09:08:00","slug":"paddington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1829","title":{"rendered":"Paddington"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Please Look After This Bear. Thank You.<\/h1>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1830\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1830\" style=\"width: 171px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/paddington-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1830\" src=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/paddington-1.jpg?w=171\" alt=\"Paddington Bear by Juliamaud\" width=\"171\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/paddington-1.jpg 593w, https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/paddington-1-171x300.jpg 171w, https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/paddington-1-582x1024.jpg 582w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 171px) 100vw, 171px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1830\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paddington Bear by Juliamaud<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Between 2 July &#8211; 15 September 2014 Books about Town displayed 50 unique BookBench sculptures around London. One was of London\u2019s most iconic bear &#8211; Paddington. The bench can now be found at Paddington Station.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1831\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1831\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/paddington-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1831\" src=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/paddington-2.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"Paddington Bear Bench by Juliamaud\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/paddington-2.jpg 974w, https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/paddington-2-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/paddington-2-768x615.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1831\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paddington Bear Bench by Juliamaud<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Paddington was also the subject of another art trail. 50 Paddington Bear sculptures were placed around\u00a0London\u00a0from 4 November to 30 December 2014. One can be found at Paddington Station itself and another can be found at the nearby Norfolk Square Gardens<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1832\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1832\" style=\"width: 186px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/paddington-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1832\" src=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/paddington-3.jpg?w=186\" alt=\"Paddington Bear by Juliamaud\" width=\"186\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/paddington-3.jpg 668w, https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/paddington-3-186x300.jpg 186w, https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/paddington-3-633x1024.jpg 633w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1832\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paddington Bear by Juliamaud<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please Look After This Bear. Thank You. Between 2 July &#8211; 15 September 2014 Books about Town displayed 50 unique BookBench sculptures around London. One was of London\u2019s most iconic bear &#8211; Paddington. The bench can now be found at Paddington Station. Paddington was also the subject of another art trail. 50 Paddington Bear sculptures &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1829\">More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Paddington<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[323,541],"tags":[288,925,878,870,871],"class_list":["post-1829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-history","tag-art","tag-paddington","tag-paddington-bear","tag-sculpture","tag-sculpture-trails"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Paddington - City Adventurers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1829\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Paddington - City Adventurers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Please Look After This Bear. 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