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Rare access to 'eighth wonder of world' - BBC News

submitted by Aard Vark

(oritteropo)
9 years 11 months 3 weeks ago

YouTube Description:

BBC News has been granted rare access to the Thames Tunnel - which was once known as the eighth wonder of the world.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-27580863

In Victorian times, hundreds of thousands of Londoners flocked to see it - amazed at how they were able to walk beneath the river.

However, since becoming part of the East London Line, the public rarely get a chance for a close-up look at the Brunel engineering masterpiece.

But this weekend, with the London Overground closed for upgrading works, Transport for London opened the tunnels to the public.

BBC London's Charlotte Franks was one of the lucky ones to get a guided tour.

2 Comments

"21 feet by 6 feet"

I thought UK was on the metric system.

Well... it is. In 2001 a grocer was convicted for using scales which only showed imperial weights, but that doesn't mean that the people have wholeheartedly adopted the system (see this article from BBC News Magazine for example).

I visited in 2002, and found that it was metric enough to make it comfortable for an Australian We were visiting a friend who is a vet nurse... who would weigh animals at work in kilograms, but herself in stones. If you've watched Gav and Dan in the slowmo guys videos, they measure distances in centimetres, inches, metres, kilometres, and miles.

Might I also point out that the U.S. is also officially a metric country, and has been for 148 years, after an act of congress was passed authorising the use of metric weights and measures in 1866 (ref http://science.howstuffworks.com/why-us-not-on-metric-system2.htm), and having been the only English speaking country to become a signatory to the Metre Convention (in 1875).

"21 feet by 6 feet"

I thought UK was on the metric system.

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