Dave Newt wrote:


Tristán White wrote:
Dave Newt wrote in
:

Tristán White wrote:
I took this photo:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/25124954@N00/480556440/
#comment72157600218892777

Can you guess...
Before reading the other replies...

(a) where it is
Warren Street, bottom of Northern Line escalators

(b) what it's for?
I've been meaning to post this question for bloody MONTHS and keep
forgetting!

I know the answer to (a), of course, but would love to know the
answer to (b) as it confuses the hell out of me whenever I see it.
Me too.



Yep. you and Dave Newt guessed the location, but still no satisfactory
answer as to its purpose I'm glad to see.


Haven't you seen the other post from pcjs00 in which he says it's to
help escape from a trapdoor in the floor?

If I leave the house early enough (i.e. in the next ten mins) I might
take a detour to have a gander!

Well, I never doubted him, but there is indeed a trapdoor there!