The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway c.1867 Size:extra large The forum and the basilica

The forum and the basilica complex - top left -was built on higher ground to the east separated by the Walbrook steam from the settlement and fort on the foreground in the Western area of the city

Interior view of a storage room at the Tilbury docks

Wellington Barracks

1874: oil on canvas

The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway c.1867 Size:extra large The forum and the basilicaA 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