The Thames Tunnel 1835 Size:extra large This illustration is a bird's

This illustration is a bird's eye view of the slums of London

The fair opened as part of the Festival of Britain in 1951

and a crowd at the railings

with text written by John Thomson and the journalist Adolphe Smith

The Thames Tunnel 1835 Size:extra large This illustration is a bird'sThe Thames Tunnel. Interior view looking along the Thames Tunnel, with pedestrians. For a charge of one shilling, members of the public could descend into the 'subterranean gloom', and on busy days the tunnel received up to 700 visitors. Not all tourists were impressed. The composer Tchaikovsky noted that he 'nearly fainted for lack of air' while visiting the tunnel. The text at the bottom of the image describes its dimensions and that it was designed