Tunnelling starts on East London’s Silvertown road tunnel

After several years of work to prepare the ground, tunnelling has started on the Silvertown road tunnel linking Blackwall and North Greenwich.

Today’s the 125th anniversary of opening the Blackwall Tunnel

On this day in 1897, London's first-ever road tunnel opened under the Thames, offering a connection across the river that East London had long been missing.

Find the Blackwall tunnel plaque

If you were so minded to pass by and peer over the edge, you might notice that there's an old plaque on the wall in the modern approach roads to the Blackwall Tunnel.

Next to the Blackwall Tunnel – the East India Docks Commemoration Plaque

If you were to stand near to the monstrous road network that is the northern end of the Blackwall tunnels, you might come across a gigantic stone plaque on a wall.