[148088] Rotherhithe : Brunel Museum - The Tunnel & the men who built it

Brunel Museum, Railway Avenue, Rotherhithe, London SE16.

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The Tunnel & the men who built it.

The skilled workers in the tunnel were the miners and bricklayers, who were well paid for their work. At the bottom of the scale were the unskilled labourers, often Irish, who received very low wages. Although we know the names of the miners, no records of the labourers have survived.

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This is the local story of an engineering family that changed the world. As well as building the world’s first tunnel through soft ground under a navigable river, the Brunels hosted the first underwater concert party here in 1827.

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