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.
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.