View of the shield used in the construction of the Thames Tunnel, London mb-code 1238996 New River Head

New River Head

'The giant-factotum amusing himself'

Third of four states of plate

including Sir John Key and Sir Claudius Stephen Hunter

View of Chester Terrace

View of the shield used in the construction of the Thames Tunnel, London mb-code 1238996 New River HeadView 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.