Thames Tunnel, London ice-skating Isle of Sandy

Isle of Sandy

Punch had long highlighted the practice of bribery of voters

View with figures and carts in the street

Staff sorting letters at the Post Office

Thames Tunnel, London ice-skating Isle of SandyThames Tunnel, London, 19th century. The Thames Tunnel from Rotherhithe to Wapping was the most remarkable undertaking by the engineer and inventor Sir Marc Isambard Brunel (1769 1849). His son, Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806 1859) was site engineer on the project. Construction began in 1825, but was not completed until 1843, partly due to the workings being totally flooded in 1828, causing the project to be abandoned for several years. 50,000 people