The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway c.1866 Frame:gold Moving neighbourhood by neighbourhood

Moving neighbourhood by neighbourhood

illustrated by prints with descriptions

Section 16 of the original Descriptive map of London Poverty

Originally the tower of London was a simple timber and earth enclosure in the south-east angle and formed by the joining of the original east and south stone walls of the old Roman town of Londinium Augusta

A Frost Fair on the Thames at Temple Stairs

The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway c.1866 Frame:gold Moving neighbourhood by neighbourhoodConstruction work on the site of Blackfriars Station, looking north east towards St. Andrew's by the Wardrobe & St. Paul' Cathedral. 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