The Tower Subway is a tunnel beneath the River Thames in central London, between Tower Hill on the north bank of the river and Vine Lane on the south. In 1869 a 1,340-foot-long (410 m) circular tunnel was dug through the London clay using a cast iron circular shield independently invented and built by James Henry Greathead, similar to an idea that had been not received a patent in 1864, nor built by Peter W. Barlow.
Interior of the Tower Subway cable car, 1870
The Tower Subway in 1870
Tower Subway northern entrance building at Tower Hill. (January 2006). Built by the LHPC in 1926, the lettering on the visible side reads "CONSTRUCTED A.D. 1868 · LONDON".
Locked entrance to the Tower Subway on the South Bank
Tower Hill is the area surrounding the Tower of London in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is infamous for the public execution of high status prisoners from the late 14th to the mid 18th century. The execution site on the higher ground north-west of the Tower of London moat is now occupied by Trinity Square Gardens.
10 Trinity Square, Tower Hill
A surviving section of Roman Wall on Tower Hill. Great Tower Hill lay inside the wall, Little Tower Hill outside.
The Tower Hill Memorial, marking the site of the Scaffold
Scale model of the Tower of London showing the Bulwark Gate and bastion to the left