View of the shield used in the construction of the Thames Tunnel, London Robert Walpole A man tends to the

A man tends to the draught horse

pedestrians walking through the Thames Tunnel

Satirical scene showing a crowded coach leaving the Belle Sauvage Inn

Below the image is a set of verse

View of the shield used in the construction of the Thames Tunnel, London Robert Walpole A man tends to theView 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.