The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway c.1866 IN626 Crowd of skaters are shown

Crowd of skaters are shown enjoying themselves on the frozen Serpentine

Blenheim Road in the North East

by the time this photograph was taken they had become something of a rarity

A male crossing patrol warden stands by a group of Asian children outside Christchurch Church of England School

the Tower of London in the South East and the Thames in the South West

The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway c.1866 IN626 Crowd of skaters are shownCompleting the railway tunnel under Praed Street, Paddington. 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 development of the tunneling shield by James Henry Greathead . The first