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August 08, 2005
Deep-level shelters
At the end of October 1939, the British government decided to build a system of deep-level air-raid shelters under London linked to existing London Underground stations. Ten were planned and eight were built with five opened to the public in 1944 as Nazi air-raids intensified. The original plan allowed for their conversion into east-west and north-south high-speed Underground lines following the War though they have thus far met with varied fates. The Chancery Lane shelter, used as a communications centre during the war, was taken over as the now largely defunct Kingsway telephone exchange.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at August 8, 2005 08:27 AM
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