Description

View of Royal Exchange's south front and west end of Cornhill

carriages and omnibuses in the street

following the re-opening of St Paul's Cathedral on 5th June

Chamberlain of London'

Thames Tunnel, London mb-code 1238815 View of Royal Exchange's southThames Tunnel, London, 1835. 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.

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