Plan, sections and elevations of the Thames Tunnel, London Half Moon Tavern Dressed in ceremonial costume

Dressed in ceremonial costume

dogs run back and forth

and looks benevolently out of the picture

The legality of the meeting was contested and riots ensued

with some in the foreground who may be mud-larking - looking for anything washed up by the tide that they might use or sell

Plan, sections and elevations of the Thames Tunnel, London Half Moon Tavern Dressed in ceremonial costumePlan, sections and elevations of the Thames Tunnel, London, 1835. The Thames Tunnel, connecting Wapping and Rotherhithe, was the first underwater tunnel in the world. Completed as a foot tunnel in 1843, it was converted to a railway tunnel for the East London Railway in the 1860s. Sir Marc Isambard Brunel designed the tunnel, and his son, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, was site engineer.