Contrasts of Little Venice and the Paddington Basin

Discover the delights of peaceful Little Venice with its canal, gin palace and Rembrandt Gardens around the junction of the Paddington Arm of the Grand Union Canal and the Regent’s Canal. Many of its buildings are Regency, white painted, stucco terraced townhouses, and taller blocks in the same style which contrast with the brash, thrusting corporate architecture of glass and steel.

Then a look at Brunel’s Paddington station. Paddington station’s story reflects that of the railway throughout the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries and is the grand terminus for the Great Western Railway that Isambard Kingdom Brunel always intended.

London at its most varied and invigorating.