The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway c.1867 Size:extra large Panoramic 'view from the staircase

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

ISBN: 9780007448470

Two prefabricated ports

The roof of the completed Paddington (Pread Street) Station

Section 47 of the original Descriptive map of London Poverty

The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway c.1867 Size:extra large Panoramic 'view from the staircaseA 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