Heralded as the Eighth Wonder of the World, Marc Brunel's tunnel under the Thames opened as a public walkway in 1843.Thames Tunnel peep show, 1843 Heralded as the Eighth Wonder of the World ...

Preventing the tunnel from ... for his efforts by Queen Victoria, who was impressed by the engineering feat, in 1841. The final construction was completed by 1842 and the Thames Tunnel was ...

and in 1843 when it was opened as a shopping precinct 50,000 people turned out to see the grand "Thames Tunnel" in Rotherhithe, east London. Queen Victoria arrived in all her pomp, and brought so ...

176 years ago, a tunnel opened which marked the birth ... to be transported underneath the busy river Thames. It was opened on 9 January 1843. They ran out of money though, so to begin with ...

The Thames tunnel, which connects Rotherhithe and Wapping, was built between 1825 and 1843 by Marc Brunel and his son, Isambard. The first tunnel known to have successfully been constructed under ...

The influential 19 th-century British mechanical and civil engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Thames ... tunnel to be constructed successfully beneath a navigable river. Built between 1825 and ...

Heralded as the Eighth Wonder of the World, Marc Brunel's tunnel under the Thames opened as a public walkway in 1843.Thames Tunnel peep show, 1843 Heralded as the Eighth Wonder of the World ...