The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway c.1866 Size:small Hyde Park Corner

Hyde Park Corner

and it was here where The Sugar Girls worked

Bayswater Turnpike

A police constable was often needed to control the congestion of the horses and carts and increasing numbers of motorised vehicles

Handmade using traditional techniques

The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway c.1866 Size:small Hyde Park CornerThe front of the completed Bayswater Station with a large group 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