Richard Beamish, an engineer, tells of the time when he was employed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and his father, Marc, to work on the Thames Tunnel. It was 1825 and no one had ever dug a tunnel ...

Heralded as the Eighth Wonder of the World, Marc Brunel's tunnel under the Thames opened as a public walkway in 1843.Thames Tunnel peep show, 1843 Heralded as the Eighth Wonder of the World ...

Renovations are to be completed by summer 2025, in time to celebrate 200 years since construction began by at the site on ...

Artefacts up for virtual adoption include Brunel’s last cigar, a commemorative cricket ball awarded to E.M Grace in 1864, and one of the last SS Great Britain tickets ever issued. The adoption ...

Isambard was the son of Sir Marc Isambard Brunel (1769-1849) and Sophia Kingdom (d.1854) and was born at Portsea, Portsmouth. With his father he worked on the Rotherhithe tunnel, the first to run ...

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