The Thames Tunnel 1835 Size:extra large and a crowd at the

and a crowd at the railings

with text written by John Thomson and the journalist Adolphe Smith

near the dome with few visitors looking at its architecture

The fair opened as part of the Festival of Britain in 1951

The Thames Tunnel 1835 Size:extra large and a crowd at theThe Thames Tunnel. Interior view looking along the Thames Tunnel, with pedestrians. For a charge of one shilling, members of the public could descend into the 'subterranean gloom', and on busy days the tunnel received up to 700 visitors. Not all tourists were impressed. The composer Tchaikovsky noted that he 'nearly fainted for lack of air' while visiting the tunnel. The text at the bottom of the image describes its dimensions and that it was designed