The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway c.1866 Size:large exhibited at the Royal Academy

exhibited at the Royal Academy of 1859

The gap through Leinster Gardens was closed later by dummy house facades which matched the rest of terrace

A rural depiction of Millbank from the southern bank

Section 57 of the original Descriptive map of London Poverty

Pauls Cathedral at night

The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway c.1866 Size:large exhibited at the Royal AcademyThe interior of the completed Kensington Station showing the platforms, roof and track with a contractor's locomotive. The station was later renamed High Street Kensington. 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