The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway c.1867 Size:extra large A new dock quay and

A new dock quay and shed were built to handle increasing imports of chilled and frozen meat

The Huguenot refugees who arrived in the 1680s used it as their first place of worship

The roof of the completed Paddington (Pread Street) Station

Panoramic 'view from the staircase and the upper part of the Pavilion in the Colosseum'

A horse-drawn cart belonging to the Midland Railway Company was photographed at the Surrey Commercial Docks waiting to take part of a cargo of paper from the S

The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway c.1867 Size:extra large A new dock quay andA 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