The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway c.1866 IN15979/1 In foreground there is a

In foreground there is a crowd of streetsellers and larger retailers

View of a crowded street in a mess of carts

selling hot stewed eels

notched sticks of wood formerly used as receipts by the Exchequer

A former customer recalled 'the white man who owned the pub would break your glass after you had finished using it'

The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway c.1866 IN15979/1 In foreground there is aThe 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