Portobello Road the road in the song "Portobello Belle" on their second album "Communiqué". The cult British children's book character Paddington Bear, featured in the books written by Michael Bond, enjoys visiting Portobello Market on a daily basis. His friend Mr. Gruber owns an antique shop on the Portobello Road, with whom Paddington has his elevenses every day. The Portobello Road and its colorful restaurants, pubs, and local culture is featured prominently in Martin Amis's 1989 dark satirical novel "London Fields." The street and its name also appeared regularly on the hit TV series "Minder". The board game "Portobello Market" is named
London Paddington station fiction. It is mentioned in several Sherlock Holmes novels. In "The Hound of the Baskervilles", Watson and his companions Dr. Mortimer and Sir Henry Baskerville leave for Dartmoor from Paddington, while in "The Boscombe Valley Mystery", Holmes and Watson leave the station for a train to Boscombe Valley near Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire. The mystery novel "4.50 From Paddington" (1957) by Agatha Christie begins with a murder witnessed by a passenger on a train from Paddington. One of The Railway Series books, "The Eight Famous Engines", contains a story about Gordon, Duck and a foreign engine debating which station London is. Duck