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Today, Rotherhithe is an unusually serene part of southeast London, with its quaint marinas, a wealth of green space, and plenty of picturesque riverside pubs.
Back in the 19th century, though, it was a bustling village teeming with mudlarks, coal whippers, and deal porters. These workers were the lifeblood of what were once enormously prosperous docks and, this summer, you re invited to discover their world as part of The Brunel Museum s fascinating new programme of walking tours.
As part of its Rotherhithe Then and Now tour, The Brunel Museum takes you all the way back to 1843, the year that the Thames Tunnel finally opened to the public.
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
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.