The Brunel Museum and the Royal Albert Hall represent two sides of Victorian London: the celebration of high culture and of engineering and 'progress'. And although it has none of the elaborate decoration and fine boxes, the Thames Tunnel is an extraordinary achievement: the world's first tunnel created under a navigable river. It was Isambard Kingdom Brunel's first big project, working with his father Marc, and for a while it gave London pedestrians the opportunity to walk below the Thames. Later converted into a railway tunnel, the shaft that was the entrance is now a performance space, circular, still blackened by train-soot, but actually offering a pretty good acoustic.

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