Title

Shaft for descent to the entrance of the Thames Tunnel (view from the top), London, 1831. Artist: Anon

Caption

Shaft for descent to the entrance of the Thames Tunnel (view from the top), London, 1831. 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.

Date

1831

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/London Metropolitan Archives

Reference

HRM19B03_440

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

30,3Mb (1,9Mb) / 9,6in x 12,2in / 2889 x 3670 (300dpi)

Keywords

London England River Thames people male interior indoors man men country pedestrian guy British tunnel English color colour entrance underground location century Britain inside first concept civil engineering shaft 19th century Southwark nineteenth century Tower Hamlets Guildhall Library & Art Gallery Bermondsey Rotherhithe TGN Thames Tunnel Wapping lithograph Anon Anonymous B Isambard Kingdom Brunel Brunel Isambard Kingdom Sir Marc Isambard Brunel Sir Marc Isambard Marc Isambard Brunel Marc Isambard B Dixie;Dixie