The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway c.1866 Size:large Section 57 of the original

Section 57 of the original Descriptive map of London Poverty

Looking southwest from Lower Custom House Stairs

exhibited at the Royal Academy of 1859

A gorilla called Guy and a chimpanzee called Congo

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

The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway c.1866 Size:large Section 57 of the originalThe 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