View of the (proposed) western archway of the Thames Tunnel, London, c1831. Artist: Anon

View of the (proposed) western archway of the Thames Tunnel, London, c1831. Artist: Anon

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View of the (proposed) western archway of the Thames Tunnel, London, c1831. The Thames Tunnel, connecting Wapping and Rotherhithe, was the first underwater tunnel in the world. Completed as a foot tunnel in 1843, it was converted to a railway tunnel for the East London Railway in the 1860s. Sir Marc Isambard Brunel designed the tunnel, and his son, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, was site engineer.

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