• Paddington and Slough have a history of being eastern suburbs of Wales,
    thanks to Brunel's GWR,
    not the proud, (but these days, distastefully, a bit Ukippy). Domesday Book village of Ruislip.

  • I think we have discussed this before. The conduits into London depositing the diaspora at their respective entry points; the Scots in King's Cross, the Irish in kilburn, the French in Croydon...

  • Yep, that's it.
    Ruislip, on the 'Chiltern Line', could plausibly have been an entry point for Brummies and other West Midlanders who could find the Snow Hill terminus in Birmingham.

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