15 Victorian photos of the London Underground being built

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

Building the Metropolitan District Railway,

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,

Notting Hill Gate Station

 

 

District Line construction outside Somerset House,

 

Metropolitan District Railway construction,

High Street Kensington

Notting Hill Gate,

Construction work near South Kensington Station

Bayswater Station upon completion,

Gloucester Road Station,

High Street Kensington’s roof taking shape

Source: British Pathe