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

The Great Eastern was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and built during 1857 by the engineer and iron-ship designer John Scott Russell

Pauls Cathedral at night

The gap through Leinster Gardens was closed later by dummy house facades which matched the rest of terrace

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