The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway c.1866 John Bool George Davison Reid photographed activity

George Davison Reid photographed activity along the banks of the River Thames extensively during the late 1920s and early 1930s

The wooden partitions between tables are typical of the London chop-house of the period - such establishments were common in the City and along Fleet Street and the Strand until late Victorian times

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The section covers the area between Hyde Park in the North West

The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway c.1866 John Bool George Davison Reid photographed activityThe 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