The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway c.1867 Size:extra large The section covers the area

The section covers the area between Myddelton Road

Panoramic 'view from the staircase and the upper part of the Pavilion in the Colosseum'

The roof of the completed Paddington (Pread Street) Station

ISBN: 9780007448470

The Quadrant is the name of a section of the southern curve of Regent Street just north of Piccadilly Circus

The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway c.1867 Size:extra large The section covers the areaA 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