The Thames Tunnel, London JD Harding scene under Covent Garden piazza

scene under Covent Garden piazza

Chelsea Pensioners reading the gazette of the Battle of Waterloo

Burning the rumps at Temple Bar

Gin inspires violence and careless inebriation

The Thames Tunnel, London JD Harding scene under Covent Garden piazzaThe Thames Tunnel, London, 1827. Views of the Thames Tunnel: top, a cross section of the tunnel with the river above; centre, a view in the tunnel and a view of the shield used in its construction; bottom, a plan of the area. 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