The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway c.1866 Frame:gold This is London as you've

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Originally the tower of London was a simple timber and earth enclosure in the south-east angle and formed by the joining of the original east and south stone walls of the old Roman town of Londinium Augusta

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The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway c.1866 Frame:gold This is London as you'veConstruction work on the site of Blackfriars Station, looking north east towards St. Andrew's by the Wardrobe & St. Paul' Cathedral. 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 underground railways before the