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- There are two large parking lots cut into two by Old Driftway.
- From the bases of these, a horizontal driftway was driven along the line of the first bore.
- It starts at the junction with Oxford Road and Garsington Road and finishes at The Slade and Horspath Driftway.
- In 1807 the directors of the company brought in Richard Trevithick who agreed to take the driftway across the river for a success fee of ?, 000.
- The driftway was supposed to drain the surrounding bedrock and then be enlarged into a full, brick-arched tunnel which would accommodate two-way vehicular traffic.
- The "'Capt . Benjamin James House "'is a historic First Period house, now a museum, at 301 Driftway in Scituate, Massachusetts.
- The idea was to bore a pilot tunnel or'driftway'starting from a shaft to be sunk in Rotherhithe ( i . e . from the south bank ).
- This Thames Archway project was abandoned after the initial pilot tunnel ( a'driftway') flooded twice when 1, 000 feet ( 305 m ) of a total of 1, 200 feet ( 366 m ) had been dug.
- Employing Cornish miners to dig and a 30-horsepower steam engine to pump, he eventually succeeded in making the driftway 313 metres from the Rotherhithe shaft : he had tunnelled under the Thames, albeit only beyond the low-water mark.