Thames Tunnel, London John Francis Rigaud scene of a murdered man

scene of a murdered man sprawled on the floor of a room with the attackers standing in one corner

View of Queen Victoria Street and the intersection with Cannon Street

with two women walking in the foreground

Graphic illustration of a red Orchid

View of the east front of Buckingham House

Thames Tunnel, London John Francis Rigaud scene of a murdered manThames Tunnel, London, 1835. 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, and his son, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, was site engineer.