The Thames Tunnel, London JD Harding looking across Blackfriars Bridge

looking across Blackfriars Bridge

with a street scene including horse drawn carriages

The site of bear-baiting on Bankside

Gin inspires violence and careless inebriation

scene under Covent Garden piazza

The Thames Tunnel, London JD Harding looking across Blackfriars BridgeThe 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