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