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By gillyh

The Mayflower Pub

Today l went with  friend on a guided walk of the main sights/works of the Brunel family in London. I guess we all know of the great engineering feats of Isambard Kingdom Brunel but it turns out there was a whole dynasty of them - father, IKB and then his son, all fantastic engineers.
We saw bridges, the site of the launching of the great ship the Great Eastern and then the first ever underwater tunnel which was built underneath the Thames between 1825 and 1843.
We stopped afterwards to have a drink at the Mayflower pub, built on the original moorings from where the Mayflower ship set off on the first leg of her adventure to America.
A good day.

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