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Vaults of ambition: shock find under London Museum enchants its builders (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 3 months ago by GreatAlbatross to c/london

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[–] Emperor 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's a great find and I'm glad it is incorporated into the plans now.

[–] GreatAlbatross 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I'm hoping to take a peek once it's all opened.
I love seeing stuff like this.

[–] ilovecheese 1 points 3 months ago

Me too! The unused tube stations look interesting as well.

[–] lath@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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?

[–] rosamundi@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world -2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They made those tunnels to fit all of the worlds historic artifacts. For protection of course.

[–] smeg 3 points 3 months ago

This is the Museum of London, you're thinking of the British Museum