Vaults of ambition: shock find under London Museum enchants its builders
Vaults of ambition: shock find under London Museum enchants its builders
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Vaults of ambition: shock find under London Museum enchants its builders
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I thought that ike Paris is built over its old city of tombs, London is built on top of old London. Did they forget that even though they live there?
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Plans get lost, stuff gets bricked up, there were a number of bombs fell in that area during WWII (http://bombsight.org/?#16/51.5187/-0.1039), it can mean expensive surprises when doing building work.
When they were building the Eurostar tunnels down the road from me they found a load of disused wells that nobody had any idea existed, with unfortunate results.
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They made those tunnels to fit all of the worlds historic artifacts. For protection of course.
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This is the Museum of London, you're thinking of the British Museum
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That's a great find and I'm glad it is incorporated into the plans now.
I'm hoping to take a peek once it's all opened.
I love seeing stuff like this.
Me too! The unused tube stations look interesting as well.