The secret sights of London
London is full of abandoned and long forgotten secrets. From underground bunkers, government hideouts, forgotten passageways, escape tunnels, disused tube stations and derelict industrial buildings.
Aldwych Station
Aldwych Stastion, originally know as Strand Station was closed in 1994. The disused street level entrance can still be seen on The Strand.
Cabinet War Rooms
One of London's most famous tourist attractions. Situated under Whitehall in the centre of the Capital, the Cabinet War Rooms was Prime Minster, Winston Churchill's hideaway during the second, built in a reinforced basement beneath the treasury building.
COBRA (Cabinet Office Briefing Room)
COBRA is an acronym commonly used in the press for Cabinet Office Briefing Room A, the briefing rooms are a suite of secure, hardened meeting rooms used in times of national crisis by various government departments. COBR is now a term used to refer to both the facility and the committee.
Down Street Station
Down Street is a London Underground station between Hyde Park Corner and Green Park on the Piccadilly line, it was closed in 1932 and later used as an air raid shelter.
Paddock
Paddock was Winston Churchill's alternate Cabinet War Room bunker for World War II, constructed in 1939 but only visited once by the Prime Minister before it was abandoned in 1944.
PINDAR Bunker
PINDAR is a secure government bunker complex, constructed in the 1990s beneath the Ministry of Defence headquarters on Whitehall in Central London.
Stockwell Deep Level Shelter
During the Second World War eight deep level shelters were built underneath stations on the Northern Line. The Stockwell shelter was completed in 1942 and was used as a public shelter for a year in 1944. The shelter is now used as document archiving warehouse.
clive
6th October 2012 21:43accessed from studley road from kennington to the oval through stockwell to clapham north[roy riddley ct to clapham common to balham then tooting bec and onto colliers wood .
we lit the tunnels with old car batteries linked to 24v bulbs stolen from busses in stockell bus garage .
contact me for detail.
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netty in reply to clive
22nd January 2013 21:34