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A mill on Blackheath

'A Bed Matt or a Door Matt'

a broken punch-bowl

a group of men are sitting in the centre of the picture

View of the (proposed) western archway of the Thames Tunnel, London Product:Canvas A mill on BlackheathView of the (proposed) western archway of the Thames Tunnel, London, c1831. 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.

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