Tom Anderson wrote:
On Thu, 5 May 2005, Kat wrote:

lonelytraveller
wrote:

I had read that there were some shelters built under some of the
central tube stations, but that the planned one at St. Pauls was
never
actually built.

According to our duty manager, who used to work on that group, the
doors
do lead to what was going to be a shelter. He said that while the
excavating was taking place local people complained about the noise
and
got the work stopped by finding some ancient law forbidding any
tunnelling under St Paul's Cathedral.

Hang on - was this *during* the war? "Bomb shelter? No thanks, too
noisy!
We'll just sit here with these nice quiet BOMBS FALLING ON OUR
HEADS."?!?!

tom

--
The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck
the societies in which they occur. -- Alfred North Whitehead

As a matter of interest, was there any work done at Bethnal Green or
Oval? As I recall there might have been some done at Oval, but it was
abandoned due to water ingress.

Neill