Secret london hidden london gems, bars and secret things to do. Behind locked doors and lost entrances lies a secret world of redundant stations and passageways, empty elevator shafts and cavernous ventilation ducts, some of which housed air raid shelters, secret wartime offices, and winston churchill s bunker. The book suggests that up to 21,000 service personnel were experimented on over decades of secret testing, with some suffering chemical burns, vomiting and breakdowns. Discover the mile of deeplevel bomb shelters beneath clapham south station, or wander the labyrinth of dark and dusty passageways of eustons lost tunnels. Hidden london by london transport museum is an intriguing history of disused and re. Aug 19, 2014 the secrets of underground london secret bunkers. Buy londons secret tubes by andrew emmerson, tony beard from waterstones today. Kings cross hidden away on a side street near kings cross is grimaldi park. Authors rachel howard and bill nash have prowled the city streets, seeking out the hidden, eccentric and overlooked. Londons secret tubes and secure communications beneath the. Londons hidden walks volumes by stephen millar whsmith. Books titled secrets of the underground feature in many. Discovering the forgotten underground by david bownes. Londons wartime citadels, subways and shelters uncovered.
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