This is a sponsored article on behalf of The Brunel Museum.
Fancy a stroll through Victorian history? On Saturday 29 May and Sunday 30 May at The Brunel Museum, you re invited to explore the Rotherhithe of yore with the help of a life-size peep show.
Created by Central Saint Martins MA student Tara Corovic as part of her Walking Burnel project, this unique installation is inspired by the Fancy Fairs once inside the Thames Tunnel, the triumph of civil engineering to which the Brunel Museum is dedicated.
Tara Corovic with a prototype of her installation
The Thames Tunnel was once dubbed the eighth wonder of the world . But by the early 1850s, the shine had worn off the underground walkway that ran beneath the River Thames, connecting north and south London. When it opened almost a decade prior, it was lauded as the first successful crossing of its kind, but it had since developed a bit of a seedy reputation, frequented by sex workers and their clients, as well as being a hotsp
OPINION
Main image: Workers preparing the tunnel entrance at the HS2 construction site in the Chilterns (Steve Parsons/PA Media)
This is what you have been writing to us about this week. I am afraid Keith Chamberlain is incorrect in saying “in respect to water, chalk and trees do not have any credence as we have adequate efficiency of these natural resources” (BFP letter, ‘We need a modern transport system like HS2’). The United Kingdom has one of the lowest percentages of tree cover, compared to that in a substantial number of European Countries, that is why there is currently a huge nationwide attempt to remediate this. Water shortages are predicted to be a problem in most of Southern England and possible loss of aquifers in the chalk due to HS2 tunnelling has the potential to aggravate this.
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This is a sponsored article on behalf of The Brunel Museum. An ambitious dream, two great engineers, and one long, dark and sometimes deadly subterranean passage. This is the story of the Thames Tunnel, and every weekend from Saturday 22 May you can discover it for yourself at what might be London s most delightfully unusual museum.
After months of closure due to the national lockdown, The Brunel Museum is almost ready to reopen its doors and bring you closer to what was once dubbed the eighth wonder of the world .
Situated in Rotherhithe, The Brunel Museum occupies the site where Marc Brunel and Isambard Kingdom Brunel s historic engineering project took shape. In 1825, the pioneering father-son duo set out to connect the north and south banks of the Thames by building a pedestrian crossing that ran all the way under the river the first in the world of its kind.