The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway c.1866 Size:extra large These houses were demolished in

These houses were demolished in 1882 to make way for the extension of the Metropolitan Railway from Aldgate to Tower Hill

The first tunneled

Southwark Reservoir in the South East and Battersea Park in the South West

Measures 37cm W x 42cm H x 11cm side

Paul's over Paternoster Row after the Blitz showing bomb damage

The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway c.1866 Size:extra large These houses were demolished inThe roof of the completed Paddington (Pread Street) Station, which opened in 1868. 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 Henry Greathead