The English have always had a bit of a thing about tunnelling - just think of all those soldiers that managed to break out under the noses of the Nazis in the Great Escape. Hollywood may have ...

this is the ancestor of the Channel Tunnel. Constructed by Sir Marc Isambard Brunel and his son Isambard Kingdom Brunel ... problems of tunnelling below the Thames was to use an iron shield ...

Richard Beamish, an engineer, tells of the time when he was employed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and his father, Marc, to work on the Thames Tunnel. It was 1825 and no one had ever dug a tunnel ...

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 ...

London, the capital of England and the United Kingdom, is a modern-day city ... There had been a number of different attempts to tunnel under the Thames, including one by British inventor and ...

Engineer Marc Isambard Brunel built the world’s first underwater tunnel, the Thames Tunnel, not his son, Isambard Kingdom Brunel (Getty) On Monday we reported the efforts of Rachel Reeves ...