Sujet

The Thames Tunnel, London, 1827. Artist: Anon

Légende

The Thames Tunnel, London, 1827. Views of the Thames Tunnel: top, a cross section of the tunnel with the river above; centre, a view in the tunnel and a view of the shield used in its construction; bottom, a plan of the area. 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

1827

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/London Metropolitan Archives

Notre référence

HRM19B03_439

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

30,6Mo (1,8Mo) / 26,3cm x 29,1cm / 3105 x 3441 (300dpi)

Mots clés

London England River Thames people male interior indoors working work job technology man men worker country pedestrian construction guy occupation British tunnel English innovation underground location century Britain profession inside first construction worker concept civil engineering B&W cross-section MONOCHROME Construction Industry 19th century black & white black and white B W Southwark nineteenth century Tower Hamlets workers Guildhall Library & Art Gallery Bermondsey Rotherhithe TGN Thames Tunnel Wapping engraving map Anon Anonymous Isambard Kingdom Brunel Brunel Isambard Kingdom Sir Marc Isambard Brunel Sir Marc Isambard Marc Isambard Brunel Marc Isambard tunnelling machine tunnelling shield