event details
Event Organiser
Organisation:
Walk London
Contact Name:
Walk London - Winter Wanders 2012
Contact Number:
0870 2406094
Contact Email:
info@walklondon.org.uk
Organisation URL:
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Subterranean London - What You're Overlooking
Where is it?
| Meeting Point: | Embankment tube station - Villiers Street exit |
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| Finishing point: | Westminster |
| Region & County: | Greater London |
When is it?
| Date: | 29th January 2012 |
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| Start Time: | 10:30 |
What kind of walk is it?
| Duration: | 2 hours |
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| Length of Walk: | Less than 5 miles |
| Walk Description: | The Cobra Room, Secret Tunnels, Bomb Shelters, Crypts, Lost Rivers, Trains & Drains: ‘Nowhere else is the tangle of infrastructure - new and old - with history and geology more intriguing or problematic’. (from Beneath the Metropolis The Secret Lives of Cities Alex Marshall). The London we know is just the crust: there's another world down there. Everything from the squat, camouflaged, granite-hard redoubt where the last stand would be made against the Nazis to the ultra-secret Cobra Room. Find out what’s under your feet with a guide who can show you the tell-tale ripples on the surface: vents, secret doorways, emergency exits, the "last stand" redoubt. The old familiar London will never look the same again. |