The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway c.1867

The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway c.1867A 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

they reveal a rich tapestry of Caribbean British lives

This area was the centre of the copper trade in London

An arch and pier of the Old Battersea Bridge

Section 51 of the original Descriptive map of London Poverty

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Cheesecake House

Lambeth Palace with a Distant View of Westminster and The Strand

and an African woman posing

The Women's Exhibition was held at Princes' Skating Rink

Deborah Kerr

to an area of land known as Rochester Yard

Supporters of 'enosis' or the union of Cyprus with Greece