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...
English Heritage Junius S. Morgan, 1813 - 1890 and John Pierpont Morgan, 183...
Camille Pissarro (1830 - 1903) impressionist painter, stayed on this site 187...
Norway cut swing bridgeThis footbridge, with its granite paving, formerly sto...
We were expecting the phrase "May they have peace who dwell therein" to be a ...
