The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway c.1866 Size:large Section 57 of the original

Section 57 of the original Descriptive map of London Poverty

Section 59 of the original Descriptive map of London Poverty

The Great Eastern was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and built during 1857 by the engineer and iron-ship designer John Scott Russell

A rural depiction of Millbank from the southern bank

Mounted Suffragettes taking part in a procession to promote the Women's Exhibition

The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway c.1866 Size:large Section 57 of the originalThe 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