Tag: Thames Tunnel

The Brunel Museum has secured grants to research and preserve two ‘kerchiefs’ sold at a mysterious, sub-aquatic Victorian shopping arcade.  ...

Now the beating heart of the Brunel Museum and with a chamber half the size of Shakespeare’s Globe, the Grand ...

In 1843, the Thames Tunnel opened to much fanfare, quickly becoming the world’s first underwater shopping arcade. Nathaniel Hawthorne visited ...

This October half-term, the Brunel Museum is inviting Southwark’s smallest inhabitants to a special storytelling session.  Bedtime Stories for Very ...

His journey has been just as interesting as the Brunels whom he reveres

It’s exciting to bring this layer of Rotherhithe’s history into the foreground

Living six in a room, so it’s always warm

The "Eight Wonder of the World" was a very different place after dark.

Controversial Thames Tideway project set to begin construction in 2017