Paddington: From the Station to the Museum

The cub stows away on a cargo ship, reaches Paddington station and meets the Brown family, who take him home and name him after the station they found him in. Most of the station scenes were shot on the real concourse, but the establishing shot of the entrance is Marylebone Station next door, and the old-fashioned tea room was a set. Author Michael Bond first put the bear on the page in 1958 and named him for the station near his home. Under the clock on platform 1 stands a statue of him by Marcus Cornish, based on Peggy Fortnum's drawings.

Visitor guidance: The Paddington Bear statue stands under the clock on platform 1.

The Browns' Windsor Gardens is really Chalcot Crescent in Primrose Hill, a meandering street between Regent's Park Road and Sharples Hall Street. Its terraced houses are known for brightly coloured stucco fronts and cast-iron balconies, which gives the family home its storybook look. In the books the Browns live at 32 Windsor Gardens, a fictitious address near Notting Hill.

Mary Brown takes Paddington to antique dealer Samuel Gruber, who discovers that his hat bears the stamp of the Geographers' Guild. On screen the shop is Alice's Antiques, at 86 Portobello Road, which is the Gruber's of the Paddington films. The film gave Gruber a backstory the books lack: director Paul King made him a refugee who arrived in Britain in 1938. In the books, Paddington has elevenses with him every day.

Visitor guidance: Alice's Antiques is at 86 Portobello Road, at the southern end of the street.

Trying to return a lost wallet, Paddington skateboards through Portobello Road Market and goes airborne. The chase was filmed in the market and in Maida Vale, so it does not follow one real street. The market runs about 940 metres along the road and is the largest antiques market in the UK. Saturday is the main antiques day, the only day when all five sections are open.

Location precision: The chase was cut together from the market and Maida Vale, so the pin marks Portobello Road rather than one spot.

Visitor guidance: Saturday is the day when all five market sections are open.

Searching for the explorer behind the hat, Paddington reaches the Geographers' Guild. Its exterior and entrance hall are the Reform Club on Pall Mall; the other interiors were filmed at Hatfield House in Hertfordshire. Paddington sneaks into the archive while Mr Brown, dressed as a cleaning woman, distracts the guard, and learns of Montgomery Clyde's Peru expedition, which the Guild erased from its records. The Reform Club held its first meeting at 104 Pall Mall on 5 May 1836, and in Around the World in Eighty Days, Phileas Fogg is a member. It is a private members' club.

Millicent Clyde is a taxidermist at the Natural History Museum and wants Paddington for her collection. She lures him back to the museum and tranquillises him, and the Browns rescue him after chases inside the building and on its roof. The museum scenes were shot in South Kensington, in the building that opened on 18 April 1881. Its tiles and bricks carry reliefs of living and extinct species.

Visitor guidance: The main frontage is on Cromwell Road in South Kensington.