Tate & Co and Purcell have won planning for the latest phase of a project opening up the Brunel Museum in Rotherhithe.

The museum is at the top of the 50ft deep entry shaft which originally served the tunnel under the Thames which was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and his father Marc. The project, which opened in 1843, nearly claimed the life of Isambard but went on to attract a million visitors in the first three months.

It is their story as well as that of the first tunnel built under a navigable river that the museum tells.

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