The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway c.1866 WHM once the docks teemed with

once the docks teemed with men

It closed in the early 1970s following a fatal accident on the Big Dipper

The grain silos and warehouses of the flourmills were amongst the 17 acres of property that the Port of London Authority estimated were damaged

Emergency bridge at Bank underground station

The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway c.1866 WHM once the docks teemed withThe 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