COLD DARK ROOM

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Good afternoon all. We are on the way home on the train. The snow appears to have eased and hopefully isn’t too bad.

It is :censored: freezing!

Today we have been to Clapham South Deep Shelter - One of 8 built during the second world war to accommodate Londoners sheltering from Nazi air attacks.

It could sleep 8000 people at full capacity. It was never an underground station although one of its entrances is from the Northern Line.

After the war it was used as a “hotel” for people visiting the 1951 Festival of Britain, for accommodation for the first Caribbean immigrants and for accommodation for troops for King George VI funeral and the subsequent coronation of the current Queen Elizabeth II.

Then it was turned into document archives which is what saved it.
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It’s 180 steps down (and up) - around 70ft/20 metres below ground.
 

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Good afternoon all. We are on the way home on the train. The snow appears to have eased and hopefully isn’t too bad.

It is :censored: freezing!

Today we have been to Clapham South Deep Shelter - One of 8 built during the second world war to accommodate Londoners sheltering from Nazi air attacks.

It could sleep 8000 people at full capacity. It was never an underground station although one of its entrances is from the Northern Line.

After the war it was used as a “hotel” for people visiting the 1951 Festival of Britain, for accommodation for the first Caribbean immigrants and for accommodation for troops for King George VI funeral and the subsequent coronation of the current Queen Elizabeth II.

Then it was turned into document archives which is what saved it.
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It’s 180 steps down (and up) - around 70ft/20 metres below ground.
Wow that is so cool.
 

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Good afternoon all. We are on the way home on the train. The snow appears to have eased and hopefully isn’t too bad.

It is :censored: freezing!

Today we have been to Clapham South Deep Shelter - One of 8 built during the second world war to accommodate Londoners sheltering from Nazi air attacks.

It could sleep 8000 people at full capacity. It was never an underground station although one of its entrances is from the Northern Line.

After the war it was used as a “hotel” for people visiting the 1951 Festival of Britain, for accommodation for the first Caribbean immigrants and for accommodation for troops for King George VI funeral and the subsequent coronation of the current Queen Elizabeth II.

Then it was turned into document archives which is what saved it.
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It’s 180 steps down (and up) - around 70ft/20 metres below ground.

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Good afternoon all. We are on the way home on the train. The snow appears to have eased and hopefully isn’t too bad.

It is :censored: freezing!

Today we have been to Clapham South Deep Shelter - One of 8 built during the second world war to accommodate Londoners sheltering from Nazi air attacks.

It could sleep 8000 people at full capacity. It was never an underground station although one of its entrances is from the Northern Line.

After the war it was used as a “hotel” for people visiting the 1951 Festival of Britain, for accommodation for the first Caribbean immigrants and for accommodation for troops for King George VI funeral and the subsequent coronation of the current Queen Elizabeth II.

Then it was turned into document archives which is what saved it.
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It’s 180 steps down (and up) - around 70ft/20 metres below ground.

'bout all I can say for it is, "Well, the sheets look clean."
 
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