Millions of people pass under the River Thames each day, by rail, road or foot. We take it for granted. Just two centuries ago, the idea of going under the river would have seemed fanciful. Today, ...

In 2002 Isambard Kingdom Brunel was voted as Britain's second ... His first notable achievement was in helping his father plan the Thames Tunnel that stretches from Rotherite to Wapping and ...

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 ...

The Brunel Museum is situated on the site of Marc Brunel and Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s historic Thames Tunnel engineering project. The museum celebrates the creation of the Thames Tunnel ...

The vertical entry shaft to the Thames Tunnel at Rotherhithe was begun ... was completed with the help of his son Isambard Kingdom Brunel in 1843. Now a 42ft-high chamber at the top of the 50ft ...

The Brunel Museum celebrates the Thames Tunnel, the first tunnel under a major river anywhere in the world, which was built by the father-and-son team of Marc and Isambard Kingdom Brunel from the ...

Nearly two hundred years after construction first began, and 150 years after being formally closed to the public, Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Rotherhithe shaft in the Thames Tunnel is slated to ...

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 ...

THE spirit of Victorian Britain was invoked yesterday as the historic Thames Tunnel – once ... triumph of Sir Marc Isambard Brunel and his son Isambard Kingdom Brunel has been closed to the ...