The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway c.1867 Size:extra large Looking Eastwards from Exeter Change

Looking Eastwards from Exeter Change

dog shows and various society shows such as the International Oil Exhibition

The section covers the area between Upper Gloucester Place in the North West

Interior view of a storage room at the Tilbury docks

Number two of Thomas Rowlandson's eight 'Cries of London'

The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway c.1867 Size:extra large Looking Eastwards from Exeter ChangeA group of railway construction workers, or 'navvies', pose for the camera beside a steam crane in Praed Street, Paddington. The Great Western Railway's Paddington terminus and hotel can be seen in the background. 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