The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway c.1866 Size:large Charing Cross Road is renowned

Charing Cross Road is renowned for its specialist and second-hand bookshops

Pauls Cathedral at night

A gorilla called Guy and a chimpanzee called Congo

This caricature is one of hundreds relating to dandies produced between 1816 and 1819

Looking southwest from Lower Custom House Stairs

The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway c.1866 Size:large Charing Cross Road is renownedThe 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