The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway c.1866 Frame:gold the City Architect

the City Architect

Police Constables Arthur Cross and Fred Tibbs photographed the aftermath

15 years later

this painting shows the east end of the church as it looked the morning after the attack

Tandridge Place in the South East and Old Town in the South West

The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway c.1866 Frame:gold the City ArchitectCompleting 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