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Secret tunnels up for sale

Discussion in 'Military History and Militaria' started by brettarider, Oct 19, 2008.

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  1. brettarider

    brettarider LE

    Just seen this on the BBC website nice peice of cold war history what's the odds it'll become a data storage facility with it's location some nice pics of the BT frames as well but then I'm an anorak :)
    link
     
    brettarider, Oct 19, 2008
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  2. ugly

    ugly LE Moderator

    Why hi vis vests, not any trains or lorries running around down there?
     
    ugly, Oct 19, 2008
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  3. RHODESIAN

    RHODESIAN LE

     
    RHODESIAN, Oct 19, 2008
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  4. jagman

    jagman LE


    There is sort of.
    It is connected to Chancery Lane tube station :D
     
    jagman, Oct 19, 2008
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  5. bovvy

    bovvy LE

    I was just thinking that I had seen something about ths on TV in the past week and recalled it was Griff Rhys Jones presenting. There is some discussion on this forum:

    http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?p=446854

    I recall they stated, in the programme, that there were more, undiscovered tunnels.
     
    bovvy, Oct 19, 2008
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  6. Bravo_Bravo

    Bravo_Bravo LE

    If you like that kind of stuff look here
     
    Bravo_Bravo, Oct 19, 2008
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  7. putteesinmyhands

    putteesinmyhands LE

    Very similar to the parallel Northern Line tunnel in the Stockwell/Clapham area constructed during the 40's as, immediately, bomb shelters but with the forward thinking that they would ease congestion on the Tube when the war was over.

    The forward thinking died somewhere along the line (sorry), the tunnel being sold for data storage and the congestion on the Northern Line steadily getting worse.
     
    putteesinmyhands, Oct 19, 2008
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  8. ugly

    ugly LE Moderator

    I did some work for an organisation connected with these tunnels etc and thats all I can say apart from the fact that there was more info when researched via google on these so called sensitive sites than the client actually held!
     
    ugly, Oct 19, 2008
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  10. Blue/GreenJob

    Blue/GreenJob LE

    They were also the setting for James Herbert's book "Lair" set in Post holocaust Britain too, as for Subterennea Brittanica, did some survey work for them in the 90's on old ROC bunkers
     
    Blue/GreenJob, Oct 19, 2008
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