Two years ago, Londoners celebrated the Tube’s 150th birthday. To commemorate the milestone anniversary, a magnificent archive photo collection showing the construction of the London Underground was published by newsreel company British Pathe.
The astonishing images show the wrecking of houses disruption in the London’s streets as neighbourhoods were demolished to make access for the tracks of the world’s first underground railway.
Take a look at this fascinating historic collection:
Construction site to the west of Waterloo Bridge
1866-1870
Building the Metropolitan District Railway,
1867
Construction work on the site of Blackfriars Station
Paddington Station in 1868, the year it opened
Bayswater Station, just after completion
Gloucester Road Station under construction,
1866
Notting Hill Gate Station
District Line construction outside Somerset House,
1869
Metropolitan District Railway construction,
1866
High Street Kensington
1868
Notting Hill Gate,
1866
Construction work near South Kensington Station
Bayswater Station upon completion,
1866
Gloucester Road Station,
1868
High Street Kensington’s roof taking shape
Source: British Pathe