View of the shield used in the construction of the Thames Tunnel, London mb-code 1238996 The statues of the giants

The statues of the giants Gog and Magog are visible at the far end

New River Head

'Two bunches a penny primroses

Third of four states of plate

and the son of Cunobelinus

View of the shield used in the construction of the Thames Tunnel, London mb-code 1238996 The statues of the giantsView of the shield used in the construction of the Thames 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.