The Thames Tunnel ( opened 1843 ).

Portland cement was used by the famous English engineer Marc Isambard Brunel several years later when constructing the Thames Tunnel.

* 1897 – The Blackwall Tunnel under the River Thames is officially opened

* March 25 – Marc Isambard Brunel's Thames Tunnel, the first tunnel under the River Thames and the world's first bored underwater tunnel, is opened in London.

During Queen Victoria's widowhood, Edward pioneered the idea of royal public appearances as we understand them today — for example, opening Thames Embankment in 1871, Mersey Tunnel in 1886, and Tower Bridge in 1894.

The world ’ s first underwater tunnel was Marc Brunel's Thames Tunnel built in 1843 and now used to carry the East London Line.

London Transport ordered five double decker buses based on the Ford Thames Trader for special duties, taking cyclists through the Dartford Tunnel.

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Built in 1869 by the East London Railway Company, which reused the Thames Tunnel, originally intended for horse-drawn carriages, the line became part of the London Underground network in 1933.

The companies reused the Thames Tunnel, built by Marc and Isambard Kingdom Brunel between 1825 and 1843.

On 25 September 1865 the East London Railway Company took ownership of the Thames Tunnel at a cost of £ 800, 000.

Acton will host the starting point of the 25 kilometre Thames Tideway Tunnel ( also known as the " Super Sewer ") at the Acton Storm Tanks in Canham Road.

His most famous achievement was the construction of the Thames Tunnel.

St. Mary's Church is at the centre of the old town of Rotherhithe village, which contains various historic buildings including the Brunel Engine House at the south end of the Thames Tunnel.

In September 2011 Thames water announced that they wanted to build an access shaft for the super-sewer Thames Tunnel.

The Thames Tunnel to Wapping was the first underwater tunnel in the world.

Thamesmead is also cut off from the north of the River Thames and is in the centre of the 15 mile gap between the Blackwall Tunnel and the Dartford Tunnel / QE2 Bridge.

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Squeezed between the high walls of the docks and warehouses, the district became isolated from the rest of London, although some relief was provided by Brunel's Thames Tunnel to Rotherhithe.

The first of these, the Thames Tunnel, designed by Marc Brunel, was the first tunnel known to have been successfully constructed underneath a navigable river.

Restoring the central section of the Thames and Severn Canal also poses engineering difficulties: firstly to overcome the water supply that was always inadequate, and secondly because Sapperton Tunnel is blocked by two rock falls.

The Harecastle Tunnel finally opened in 1777 and coal was finally transported from the Midlands to the Thames at Oxford in January 1790, some 18 years after Brindley's death.

The restoration of London progressed through the later half of the 880s and is believed to have revolved around a new street plan, added fortifications in addition to the existing Roman walls, and, some believe, the construction of matching fortifications on the South bank of the River Thames.

The Archbishop of Canterbury's official London residence is Lambeth Palace, photographed looking east across the River Thames.

It is located next to Bishop's Park on the banks of the River Thames.

The Riverside Stand backs onto the River Thames and is elevated uniquely above the pitch unlike the other 3 stands.

Charlton Athletic were formed on 9 June 1905 by a group of 15-to 17-year-old boys in an area of Charlton which is no longer residential, near to the present-day site of the Thames Barrier.

The only topography on it is the River Thames, letting the reader know whether a station is north or south of the river.

) is a television series produced originally by Rediffusion, London, then, by the fledgling Thames Television for British commercial television channel ITV from 26 December 1967 to 14 May 1969.

In the early 21st century redevelopment is spreading into the more suburban parts of East and Southeast London, and into the parts of the counties of Kent and Essex which abut the Thames Estuary.

A frequently-cited example illustrating the use of heroic couplets is this passage from Cooper's Hill by John Denham, part of his description of the Thames:

* 1717 – King George I of Great Britain sails down the River Thames with a barge of 50 musicians, where George Frideric Handel's Water Music is premiered.

Kipper time is the season in which fishing for salmon is forbidden in Great Britain, originally the period 3 May to 6 January, in the River Thames by an Act of Parliament.

The basic geographical structure is respected but the tube lines ( and the River Thames ) are smoothed to clarify the relationships between stations.

To the east of London, the Dartford Crossing of the Thames between Thurrock and Dartford is the lesser grade A282 ; the Crossing, which consists of two tunnels and the QE2 ( Queen Elizabeth II ) bridge, is named Canterbury Way.

Policing the road is carried out by an integrated policing group made up of the Metropolitan, Thames Valley, Essex, Kent, Hertfordshire and Surrey forces.

New Malden is a small town and shopping centre in the south-western London suburbs, mostly within the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames and partly in the London Borough of Merton, and is situated from Charing Cross.

A minor tributary of the River Thames, Beverley Brook, flows through the east of the town, while its western boundary is along the Hogsmill, another Thames tributary.

The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames has one of the largest expatriate community of South Koreans in Europe, and is said to be one of the most densely populated area of Koreans outside South Korea.

According to different sources, the Korean population in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames is around 20, 000, of whom around 8000 reside in the Kingston Borough portion of New Malden.

Part of the New Palace's area of was reclaimed from the Thames, which is the setting of its principal façade, the river front.