View of the (proposed) western archway of the Thames Tunnel, London Product:Canvas a broken punch-bowl

a broken punch-bowl

Map of the City of Westminster

two bunches a penny'

the men wear top hats

including men carrying advertising placards and a man with a plantstall

View of the (proposed) western archway of the Thames Tunnel, London Product:Canvas a broken punch-bowlView of the (proposed) western archway of the Thames Tunnel, London, c1831. 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.