Blowing up of the concrete shoal, River Thames, London, 1848
Original engraving from The The Illustrated London news of 8 January 1848. A shoal is a sandbank or reef creating shallow water where it then forms a hazard to shipping. The "concrete" referred to here is just a name given to the hardened sediments it does not imply actual concrete.
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