A brainy start to the day. Well if your name was James Henry Greathead luckily for us it was. He designed the tunnelling shield, the machine that drove the second only tunnel under the Thames that pops us up at Tower Hill.
It was not until more than a century later that the man was honoured with this statue. I'm sure he'd be delighted that the plinth he stands upon encases the ventilation shaft for the tube line that passes underground here.
7 comments:
Impressive monument for a man that was boring at his job. :)
Impressive architecture and statue. LOL at Andy's comment!
Greathead? Great name!
Seems appropriate.
I have heard the name before, in a documentary. Impressive monument!
Cool vent that
It is unglamorous but valuable work. Appropriate that they put the statue above the ventilation unit.
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