Construction of the Thames Tunnel, London St Paul's Wharf with the interior decorated a

with the interior decorated a rich red

with Conduit Street

flames and smoke pouring from the crater

Cloth Fair

Construction of the Thames Tunnel, London St Paul's Wharf with the interior decorated aConstruction of the Thames Tunnel, London, 1827. View showing the tunnel under construction and the diving bell which was used. The spire of St Mary, Rotherhithe can be seen in the distance. 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,