Shaft for descent to the entrance of the Thames Tunnel (view from the top), London winter A stout woman sells buns

A stout woman sells buns to a woman with three children standing in their doorway

23rd June 1861

on the left a fruit seller can be seen and in the centre a boy bowls a hoop

'J Clark the Posture Master'

View of the yard belonging to Grimble and Booth's distillery on Albany Street

Shaft for descent to the entrance of the Thames Tunnel (view from the top), London winter A stout woman sells bunsShaft for descent to the entrance of the Thames Tunnel (view from the top), London, 1831. 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.