{Beneath the London Docklands Development Corporation logo:}
Rotherhithe Tunnel Airshaft. This listed structure was constructed between 1904 and 1908 by the engineer Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice. The Prince of Wales opened the tunnel in 1908.
SE16, Brunel Road
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Rotherhithe Tunnel Airshaft
Road tunnel crossing under the River Thames, connecting Rotherhithe to the Ra...
The building contains a staircase down to the tunnel and pedestrian footpath....
Civil engineer. Born at Clogher, near Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland. He worke...
Reigned: 1910 - 1936. Born third in line to the throne, after his father (wh...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Rotherhithe Tunnel Airshaft
We did not initially recognise this logo, on at least 8 plaques in the Surrey...
Gardner lived in the first floor apartment, 1968 until her death here in 1990. The Irish Examiner has some photos of the rather garish in...
The text on the top plaque refers to two locations: "here and at the Eton Manor Club in Hackney Wick". But that plaque and the others wit...
The plaques are just inside the entrance to the building. Although the foundation stone was laid in 1913, WW1 got in the way, and the bu...
Andrew Motion was commissioned to write a poem for this garden. It is cut (in a very interesting way) into the low concrete wall around ...
