Brunel's engine house
The tunnel shaft and pumping house for Marc Brunel's tunnel was constructed between 1825 and 1843. This was the first thoroughfare under a navigable river in the world.
{The image at the top is the London Docklands Development Corporation logo:}
SE16, Railway Avenue, Brunel Engine Museum
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Brunel's Engine House
The engine house was designed by Marc Brunel to be part of the infrastructure...
Civil Engineer, born Hacqueville, Normandy, France. Educated in France, but f...
The first tunnel in the world under a navigable river. Built between 1825 and...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Brunel's Engine House
We did not initially recognise this logo, on at least 8 plaques in the Surrey...
Ellen Terry, the great actress, lived here from 1904 to 1920.
This is one of those plaques modelled on those of the City of London.
This plaque, spotted by our colleague Alan Patient, was erected in 2012, sometime between our first visit in January and Alan's visit in ...
In our photo the railing replacement plaque can just be seen on the low wall to the left of the steps. The Memorial Garden plaque is on t...
We must thank Londonist's Secrets of the Circle Line by Geoff Marshall for pointing this out to us. The plaque is on the pillar in our p...
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