The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway c.1867 Size:extra large ISBN: 978-0008257163

ISBN: 978-0008257163

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

The Quadrant is the name of a section of the southern curve of Regent Street just north of Piccadilly Circus

The section covers the area between Myddelton Road

Romanians and Russians

The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway c.1867 Size:extra large ISBN: 978-0008257163A 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