View of the entrance to the Thames Tunnel, London Product:Fine art poster Crowded street scene in front

Crowded street scene in front of the Royal Exchange

This badge was his identification and signified that he was a licensed porter

The woman's pose travesties the words of the quotation from Sir Walter Scott

Thomas Corney

View of the entrance to the Thames Tunnel, London Product:Fine art poster Crowded street scene in frontView of the entrance to the Thames Tunnel, London, 1854. 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.