Credit for this entry to:
Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
Boiler House, this building was originally used as a boiler house during the construction of Marc Isambard Brunel's Thames tunnel between 1825 and 1843. It has since had many alterations and changes of use. It was restored in 1979.
SE16, Tunnel Road
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Thames Tunnel Boiler House
Built to provide steam for the pumping engines needed to keep the Thames Tunn...
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 plaque is in the same style as others erected by Firemen Remembered, alt...
London County CouncilSir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, 1853-1917, actor-manager live...
The flanking stones don't really explain: Where did this crest come from (one...
{Beneath the Royal Artillery badge with the motto Ubique Quo Fas et Gloria Du...
