 Hello there, travellers. Welcome, welcome. Now allow me to be the first to introduce myself. For I am the sti... Oh, hang on. You haven't happened to see my hat, have you? Oh dear. No. Silly me. I must warn you. I can be a little bit forgetful at times. Where was I? Ah yes. Allow me to be the first to introduce myself. For I am the station master. And you can usually find me on the platform of one Paddington station. All aboard! All tickets and passes that are ready for inspection, please! Oh sorry. No, don't worry. You won't need any tickets for where we're going today. Because today we're taking a little trip to the Lost Property Library. This is the place where all the things that people lose on the platform come to be archived. Capped safe. People are always losing things. We keep these lost things safe because each item has a tale to tell. Well, not literally of course. I don't think that old umbrella is going to start to speak. No. Because here at the Lost Property Library we preserve the stories attached to each item. Within this library you will find all sorts. Like suitcases and letters and foreign exports. I collect every item of Lost Property and add each one to my inventory. And the sign above the place where I keep them reads, please look after these stories. From umbrellas to keys and a stethoscope. A wooden leg once. And a golden telescope. Oh, lost tickets and trunks and hats made of suede. And once a sandwich filled with marmalades. It's my job to keep safe all these lost stories. To collect them. To file them in categories. Some of them real. Some just imagined. Stories from items lost or abandoned. All bottled. All stumped and all labelled to find. In the Lost Property Library for all humankind. I think the best way for me to show you what I mean is with an example. And the first lost property in question is a bear. A little bear who was found sat alone on the station platform. A bear called Paddington. Paddington grew up a long, long way from here. In a place called Peru. That's in South America. Paddington grew up under the care of his dear Aunt Lucy. When Aunt Lucy got a little bit older she went to live in the home for retired bears. And Paddington was sent to live in England. So he packed a case. And then stowed away inside a boat. Before boarding a train. And finally tucking into his very favourite marmalade sandwiches. Only to discover that his Aunt Lucy had sent him a photo to remember her. And at that very moment the little bear looked up to see the train pulling into the platform that bears his name. Paddington. And it was on the platform that he was found. With a label around his neck that read, please look after this bear. And this little bear went on to have a lot of adventures. So many adventures. With a lovely family called the Bruins if I remember correctly. Wow. So many adventures. But it should stay on track. Get it? Train track? Time for another story. Let's see. Allow me to introduce Miss Matilda Hummingbird who was making her way home through a crowded Paddington station on her way home from Salts the Lessons. Miss Matilda was walking home through Paddington station when suddenly she dropped her keys. And she didn't realise she had dropped them until she got home. And it started to get dark. Oh no! My keys! She stood frozen on the doorstep looking up at the house. What was she going to do? Then suddenly Matilda had an idea. If she shimmied up the drain pipe to the first floor bathroom window which was open just a crack, she could prize it open and climb inside. Now you and I both know that that is an absolutely ridiculous plan. But Miss Matilda Hummingbird was not to be told. So she decided to climb. She was about a metre and a half off the ground when suddenly she lost a shoe. And as the shoe hit the ground Matilda suddenly remembered that she was terrified of heights. But luckily for Matilda at that exact moment the friendly neighbour from next door heard her screams. A rubber or what? I've just lost my keys and I'm just trying to get inside. So you thought you'd do a good spiderman impression I? I don't know. Just help me please! Luckily for Matilda he did. He helped her off the drain pipe. And he suddenly remembered that Matilda's mother had given his father a spare key for the house. And he said I think that's probably a better idea I've had to get inside. Bertie I think his name was yeah. And him and Matilda went on to be the best of friends after that incident. Very good friends indeed. But there was another incident with a secondary pipe and a missing hat but that is a story for another day. I want to tell you the story of the lost umbrella. Oh you will not believe how many umbrellas I find on the station platform. There are loads of them. And when the sun comes back out people always forget about their umbrellas. But this umbrella was found on the platform one very rainy day. Oh no. Oh look at the label it's all smudged. Oh I can't read it. Oh dear. And I can't remember who owned it how it came to be here or what story it has to tell. That's the problem you see sometimes I get a bit forgetful and things get completely lost. Oh and for example this photo album filled with adventures but some of the photos have disappeared entirely. Oh and I've just discovered this poetry book filled with poems but look at the pages. Oh there are lots missing. Oh dear oh dear this simply won't do. I've just had an idea. What if you helped me find the lost photos, poems and items to add back into the lost property library. Oh there is a host of activities where you too can contribute to the library of lost things. Oh great. And I cannot wait to see all of the fantastic things that you come up with. Farewell travellers. Office hours are over. Until next time, the end.