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Over, Under and Across, Part Two: Under

How a shipworm bankrupted Marc Brunel, nearly killed his son, and ended up helping to build the Channel Tunnel.

TalkHistoryScience & nature

At The London Archives.

The second of three talks on crossing the Thames, and the hardest of the three ways: going under it. The Thames Tunnel took eighteen years, flooded repeatedly and killed men, and the shield that finally got it through was patented from the way a shipworm bores through timber. 12:30, £10.

Where
40 Northampton Road, EC1R 0HB
Nearest station
Farringdon · 8 min walk

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