Picture No | 10215831 |
Date | 1869 |
Description | Construction of Barlow's Tower Tunnel 1869 |
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View down the second tunnel beneath the Thames. (Isambard's Rotherhithe Tunnel being the first) The tunnel passes from Tower Hill to Tooley Street, near the London Bridge Station. Made from a circular iron tube 7 foot in diameter laid deep in the clay of the river bed.
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Source | Illustration in 'The Illustrated London News', 30 October 1869, page 440 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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