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The museums, the machines and the men and women who worked it out: laboratories kept as they were, beam engines under steam, the tunnel, the barrier, the roofs, and the plaques on the houses where the ideas came.
Fifty feet under the Thames on foot, in a white-tiled tube of 1902 between Greenwich and the Isle of Dogs, open at every hour.
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Alexander Binnie built it for the London County Council so that dockers on the Isle of Dogs could walk to work, and it has not closed since it opened in August 1902: a cast-iron tube 370 metres long lined with two hundred thousand white glazed tiles, reached by the glass-domed shafts at Cutty Sark Gardens and Island Gardens, with lifts and spiral stairs of a hundred steps at each end. The floor dips to the middle and the tiles sweat; the walk takes you under the river and out to the view of the Naval College across the water that Canaletto painted. Free, and a bicycle must be wheeled.
Open at every hour; the lifts have their own hours and the stairs are always there. Enter from either end: Cutty Sark Gardens on the Greenwich side, or the dome in Island Gardens on the Isle of Dogs, beside Island Gardens DLR. Woolwich has a twin of 1912.
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