View of the entrance to the Thames Tunnel, London Product:Fine art poster Pond Street

Pond Street

Panoramic view of the City of London

showing the area between Downing Street and Dover House on Whitehall

Thomas Corney

previous to the demolition of the old front in Great Russell Street

View of the entrance to the Thames Tunnel, London Product:Fine art poster Pond StreetView of the entrance to the Thames Tunnel, London, 1854. The Thames Tunnel, connecting Wapping and Rotherhithe, was the first underwater tunnel in the world. Completed as a foot tunnel in 1843, it was converted to a railway tunnel for the East London Railway in the 1860s. Sir Marc Isambard Brunel designed the tunnel, and his son, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, was site engineer.