The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway c.1866 Frame:none with crowds extending to scaffolds

with crowds extending to scaffolds and roofs listening to candidates

organised by the Women's Social and Political Union

Section 18 of the original Descriptive map of London Poverty

Two uniformed women stand with pigeons landing on the head and arms of one of them

The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway c.1866 Frame:none with crowds extending to scaffoldsThe interior of the completed Paddington (Praed Street) Station, looking east towards Edgeware Road. The photographer's portable darkroom can be seen at the end of the westbound platform. 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