Author: THAMES TUNNEL
Title: Open to the Public Every Day (Sundays excepted) from seven in the morning until six in the evening. The Thames Tunnel.
Description: Teape & Sons, Printers, Tower Hill, c. 1837. 300 x 280 mm. a little browned. A broadsheet advertising public visits to the first tunnel under the Thames built by Brunel using his revolutionary tunnel shield. Originally designed as a passage for carriages it was never used for this purpose and in 1865 was purchased for use a rail tunnel. The charge to visitors was an attempt to defray some of the costs of construction.

Keywords: Ephemera


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