The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway c.1866 John Bool Carron Wharf and Copper Wharf

Carron Wharf and Copper Wharf

A waiter carries a tankard and bowl towards the gentlemen diners at their table

was in 1276 when its location moved to the High Street

revolutionaries

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

The construction of the Metropolitan District Railway c.1866 John Bool Carron Wharf and Copper WharfThe 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