Two views of the Thames Tunnel, commemorating the visit by Queen Victoria, London Sir Thomas Gresham He is dressed in uniform

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Two views of the Thames Tunnel, commemorating the visit by Queen Victoria, London Sir Thomas Gresham He is dressed in uniformTwo views of the Thames Tunnel, commemorating the visit by Queen Victoria, London, 1843. At the top is a view of the Queen arriving at the tunnel entrance, and beneath is a view in the tunnel. 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,