The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway c.1866 IN626 A crowd gathered around an

A crowd gathered around an East End stationer and newsagents window where the latest edition of the Illustrated Police News has been displayed

by the time this photograph was taken they had become something of a rarity

Commercial Basin in the South East and Southwark Park in the South West

A male crossing patrol warden stands by a group of Asian children outside Christchurch Church of England School

St Paul's in the distance

The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway c.1866 IN626 A crowd gathered around anCompleting the railway tunnel under Praed Street, Paddington. From a series of 64 photographs taken in the late 1860s by Henry Flather to document the construction of the railway from Paddington to Blackfriars via Kensington, Westminster and the new Victoria Embankment. Construction was by the 'cut and cover' method used to build the first underground railways before the development of the tunneling shield by James Henry Greathead . The first