The Secrets of Underground Britain - WARTIME SECRETS

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  @Stoic-of-Rome · 5 years ago (edited)

  In the mid to late 80&apos;s I worked as an engineer and welded track sections all over the network. Some off these abandoned stations are facinating time capsules and definitely have a &apos;presence&apos; and at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyTKhRT_JWA&amp;t=150">02:30</a> in the morning walking alone along the tunnels gets the hairs raising on the back of your neck in certain places. A few fellow engineers would refuse to work alone in particular locations. Balham station was &nbsp;a real dreaded location due to the awful loss of life there &nbsp;during the Blitz in 1940.

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  @michaelpage7691 · 8 years ago

  You Poms are an incredible lot in times of hardship...praise to all those that produced all the structures and the people who worked in them.👍🏻🇦🇺

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  @beachcomberbloke462 · 5 years ago

  How refreshing to have a well researched documentary not presented by a so called celebrity.Thank you so much.

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  @ianbeedles1329 · 1 year ago

  Corsham was still being used by the RAF as late as 1985.<br>As a driver I spent a short time as the VIP Driver to a Air Commodore in charge of all the RAF radio/radar sites in the UK. Each year he would conduct an annual inspection of each unit, and I particular remember taking him to Corsham as I had to wait in the car for 2 hours whilst he did his &apos;inspection&apos; underground and the MoD plods in their guardhouse didn&apos;t even offer me a mug of tea!

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  @magicwandfour · 5 years ago

  @ 19.46 you may be curious to know what you are looking at .It is part of the worlds first programmable computer (probably an early version or experiment) .For while the narration talks of Churchill it ignores that it was here at Dollis Hill that Tommy Flowers built the first computer. It was used to break the Lorenz cipher &nbsp;which Hitler used to issue &nbsp;orders to his high commanders and was more complicated than the Enigma machine. Flowers was the son of bricklayer from the East End faced opposition and prejudice from many at Bletchley Park, especially Gordon Welchman ( Marlborough and Trinity) . It was his expertise in using valves, gained from working on telephone exchanges, that gave him belief that it could be done. His computer ,named Colossus, came online just before D-day and a modern remake is now on show at Bletchley Park.

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  @Nounismisation · 11 years ago

  This guy, the photographer, is committed to his thing. You can&apos;t fault that.

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  @martyjackson2014 · 6 years ago

  I worked at Down Street Station and Clapham South Deep Level Bomb Shelter with TFL Museum’s Hidden London tours. Was the most incredible place to spend each day - I will never forget it!

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  @sarahhall738 · 6 years ago

  Nan worked in the white cliffs of Dover on telephones then as ambulance driver in Canterbury during the Canterbury blitz then drove a Kent police superintendent around.

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  @carolempluckrose4188 · 5 years ago

  I spent a short while on detachment to an underground radar station in the early &apos;70&apos;s. &nbsp;It&apos;s long since gone now.

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  @keith800 · 5 years ago

  The Post office railway is now open to the public as a museum called Mail rail and you can go for a trip on the trains.

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  @plunder1956 · 5 years ago (edited)

  I have an odd connection with the cabinet war rooms. Because my mother Lorna Martin broadcast French folk music to the free french and resistance from there for the BBC. She couldn&apos;t &nbsp;be sure - but the microphone she used was probably also used by Winston for his radio speeches. He did use that room.

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  @jsbach9848 · 6 years ago

  Why isn&apos;t this place made into a museum???? I would love to visit a place like this!

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