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Sir Marc Isambard Brunel

Photograph at the Sir Marc Isambard Brunel plaque

Near this spot in 1828 Isambard Kingdom Brunel was pulled half-drowned from the flooded shaft. The Thames Tunnel was abandoned for seven years and Marc Brunel sent his son to Clifton to convalesce...

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