The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway c.1866 Size:medium under liberal regulations unknown in

under liberal regulations unknown in the old markets

Lambeth Waterworks tower can also be seen as well as the Patent Shot Manufactory square tower

Panorama from a series of ten views of London from the South Bank

from 'London: a Pilgrimage' by Blanchard Jerrold and Gustave Doré

James's St

The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway c.1866 Size:medium under liberal regulations unknown inThe 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