View of the shield used in the construction of the Thames Tunnel, London India In the centre a man

In the centre a man wearing steam driven boots has ground to a halt

The Balloon Kettle

a National Monument obelisk the other

says Check and Parnell

Women weep into handkerchiefs

View of the shield used in the construction of the Thames Tunnel, London India In the centre a manView of the shield used in the construction of the Thames 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.