There is another world in subterranean London.
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There is another world in subterranean London.
In its Air Raid Shelter days, people had to bring everything with them: Bedding, clothing, etc. That's 180 steps down to the shelter and then lugging everything back up 180 steps in the morning as you weren't allowed to leave things there for the next night unless your home had been completely destroyed by bombing.
There were 4 canteen serveries. Everything cost 2d (2 old pennies) whether you bought a cup of tea, a sandwich or a pie. This was expensive for the day, so people used to take their own food too.
There were also two free medical bays where people could get free health care... Which was before our free National Health Service was invented.
During the day, everything was fumigated ready for the next night.
CarolM
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Isn't that where the vampires and werewolves live?
CarolM
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They should nake some money and charge a fee to stay there one night.
I think it fails every modern Health & Safety regulation, particularly those for fire and escape in case of fire. You can only go to see it in pre-booked small groups and anything remotely flammable is taken off you before you descend.
The toilet facilities were chemical toilets as the shelter is below the level of London's sewers. The toilet buckets were emptied into a tank and this was pumped out into the sewerage system.
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65*F today
Beautiful day! Aw. . . laying in the sun.
On the weather front....cold and flurries here in Md. Early morning was bright warm sunshine....but, not now. Father Frost is clearly in charge and keeping grips on for as long as he can. The month of March has already been much colder than February.
March has been much colder than February for us here in Louisiana as well.
Are you dug out after
3 nor'easters in 2 weeks??!?!?!?
March has been much colder than February for us here in Louisiana as well.
Are you dug out after
Luckily.....we just missed all the snow. Just bla out...and now flurries. Daffodils are standing like soldiers...but birds are still hitting the feeders.
Changing subjects.... Ireland seal St Patrick's Day glory to claim only their third Grand Slam when they overpowered England 24-15 in their Six Nations Championship encounter at Twickenham
They certainly did.
England were never in the match.
Interesting point that the Irish rugby team is in fact a combined team with players from both Northern Ireland (part of the UK) and the Republic of Ireland (aka Eire). This is VERY unusual, not least because of the religious and political divides, so the team has its own "national" anthem called "Ireland, Ireland".
Wales beat France narrowly and came runners up in the Six Nations Championship ... so Adam and I, who both have Welsh halves to our ancestry, are both happy
They certainly did.
England were never in the match.
Interesting point that the Irish rugby team is in fact a combined team with players from both Northern Ireland (part of the UK) and the Republic of Ireland (aka Eire). This is VERY unusual, not least because of the religious and political divides, so the team has its own "national" anthem called "Ireland, Ireland".
Wales beat France narrowly and came runners up in the Six Nations Championship ... so Adam and I, who both have Welsh halves to our ancestry, are both happy
Interesting.... I too have some of that Welsh blood in my veins....and Staffordshire as well!
CarolM
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Aaaahhh. Okay. I wouldn't be a fan of a bucket toilet. And hmmm the fire hazard thing would be a problem. Pity - it would be fun except for the bucket toilet.
CarolM
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I would love to stay there and to think that was totally white a couple of weeks ago.
With the flurries and full feeders, I set up our camera on time lapse to catch a few visitors..
Just wanted to let you all know that I haven't forgotten the prizes for our two 100,000 post winners. I have Kristof's and Adam's addresses from the card exchange, and today I finally received the last prize in the mail, so I'll be packaging them up this week and taking them to the post office this coming Friday. Congratulations to the two winners! Now let's see what's going to happen for the 200,000th!!!!!
I’m with you!!!!!
