The Mount, Charles Darwins boyhood family home Charles Darwins undergraduate alma matter: Christs College, University of Cambridge London Fashions, 1837 Down House, Darwins family home and the place he wrote his most important work Darwins study in Down House Londons West-End Railway District in 1859 The River Thames: Londons Lifeblood Perrys Dock Blackwall London Londons East India Docks The Gateway to the Riches Flowing From Empire The Charing-Cross Railway Bridge across the Thames, with the Houses of Parliament in the background The Houses of Parliament The opening of St. Katherines Dock in 1828 marks the end of this period of dock construction in London Greenwich at high tide A celebration at Greenwich Demolition of the old London Bridge Opening of the New London Bridge 1 August 1831 Railway construction in London, 1839 A Victorian factory Victorian industrialization: a bread-making machine in 1860 The new printing machine of the Daily Telegraph in 1859 The George Stephenson, a locomotive steam engine built in 1860 Old & New Victorian revelry: the Annual Ball of the Non- Commissioned Officers at the Royal Artillery School, Woolwich 1859 The taming of space and time, the domestication of nature: Deepdale Viaduct, on the South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway, 1859 The Doric portico to Euston station, the London terminus of the London and Birmingham Railway; built in 1838 The Strand Cholera outbreak in London The Albert Institution in London, a charity which provided baths, schools, workmens clubs and other services for the working classes Traffic jams are nothing new: congestion on the London Bridge in 1859 The British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph Company offices on Threadneedle Street, London Londons fashionable Pall Mall Public improvements: new fountains on the Serpentine in Londons Hyde Park, 1860 The Victorian love of nature: the show of camellias at the Vauxhall Nursery A vista in Kew Gardens, with the Pagoda in the background Kew Gardens: The Palm House, with the Pagoda in the background A new lake in Kew Gardens The Palm House at Kew Gardens London as a Hub for Scientific Research: The Hunterian Museum in London The British Museum Mummies in the British Museum Elgin Marbles in the British Museum Not Only Mummies: Zoological Display in the British Museum Zoological displays in the British Museum The interior of the Palm House Interior of the Gallery of the New Society of Painters in Water-Colours, Old Bond Street (1834) The Oxford Natural History Museum in 1860 Interior of the Oxford Natural History Museum Westminster Abbey in the nineteenth century Charles Darwins burial in Westminster Abbey The Natural History Museum The Central Hall of the Natural History Museum Charles Darwins statue is unveiled at the Natural History Museum in 1885