Greenwich Foot Tunnel: The Crossing London Forgot It Built

Beneath the River Thames runs a tiled Edwardian tunnel that London almost forgot it built. This is the story of how a boy from a Poplar workhouse grew up to fight for a free crossing under the river, how the engineers dug it by hand through waterlogged gravel, how a Blitz bomb nearly drowned it on the first night of the bombing, and how the world it was built for vanished entirely. The tunnel outlived the docks, the dockers, and the man who made it. It is still open today.

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