The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway c.1866 Frame:none organised by the Women's Social

organised by the Women's Social and Political Union

Section 18 of the original Descriptive map of London Poverty

as St Paul's Cathedral is shown complete with its spire which was destroyed by lightning in 1561

with the playhouses on the left-hand side and the cathedral in the centre

the drama of daily life in the world city: a building on fire

The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway c.1866 Frame:none organised by the Women's SocialThe 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