![]() “They very sadly used to sit by the fire and cry,” he recalls. Michael recalls Jewish refugees at Reading station – in fact, his parents took in two boys, aged around nine and 10. The idea of Paddington being abandoned on a railway platform with nothing but a label asking for someone to look after him “please”, was sown in that imagination during his wartime teenage years. In those days Boots had a lending library and my mother used to go down and get six or seven books. He says: “Books were part of the furniture. ![]() He would play cricket with his civil servant dad, “a gentleman who wore a hat like Paddington everywhere so he could doff it – he didn’t even take it off if we paddled in the sea”.īut his mum was an avid reader. ![]() Michael’s undiminishing imagination was fostered as a boy growing up in Reading. ![]()
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