The Brunel Museum in South London has announced it ... the first ever tunnel dug beneath a river. It runs from Rotherhithe to ...

Heralded as the Eighth Wonder of the World, Marc Brunel's tunnel under the Thames ... show which recreates the view along the tunnel from Rotherhithe to Wapping. As one tourist said at the time ...

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 ...

And here, in the streets of Rotherhithe, East London, is where it all started. Now, what a lot of people don't know is that Brunel and his dad had a very unique way of digging a tunnel.