Shaft for descent to the entrance of the Thames Tunnel (view from the top), London Size:S: 50 x 40cm at the corner of Golden

at the corner of Golden Lane

Originator and Chairman of the City of London Freeman's Orphans' School

plate I of VIII

View of crypt in St Paul's Cathedral

Shaft for descent to the entrance of the Thames Tunnel (view from the top), London Size:S: 50 x 40cm at the corner of GoldenShaft 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.