The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway c.1867 Size:extra large Section 47 of the original

Section 47 of the original Descriptive map of London Poverty

A horse-drawn cart belonging to the Midland Railway Company was photographed at the Surrey Commercial Docks waiting to take part of a cargo of paper from the S

A new dock quay and shed were built to handle increasing imports of chilled and frozen meat

Two prefabricated ports

The Huguenot refugees who arrived in the 1680s used it as their first place of worship

The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway c.1867 Size:extra large Section 47 of the originalA 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