The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway c.1866 Size:medium Steamboats are going under the

Steamboats are going under the bridge

Panorama from a series of ten views of London from the South Bank

Called the Strand Bridge during its construction

from 'London: a Pilgrimage' by Blanchard Jerrold and Gustave Doré

These houses dated from the early 18th century

The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway c.1866 Size:medium Steamboats are going under theThe front of the completed Notting Hill Gate Station with railway staff posing for the camera. 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