The big thing in the middle of Akerman Rd, Camberwell
 

http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&t=...01328,0.002494

It looks like a nuclear submarine, with a model of the mountain from Close
Encounters on each end. It has an entrance door at each end, presumably
locked. AFAIK it's not near any underground railways.

What is it?

The big thing in the middle of Akerman Rd, Camberwell
 

John Rowland wrote:
http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&t=...01328,0.002494

It looks like a nuclear submarine, with a model of the mountain from
Close Encounters on each end. It has an entrance door at each end,
presumably locked. AFAIK it's not near any underground railways.

What is it?

A ventilation shaft for something or other - the plan for its removal
is mentioned in "The Lambeth Plan 2002-2017":
http://www.lambeth.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/88C033E8-732F-4B54-9E48-1F609769985C/0/deposit_draft_UDP.pdf
(page 137)



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Bob

The big thing in the middle of Akerman Rd, Camberwell
 

"John Rowland" wrote in
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http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&t=...723,-0.106178&
spn=0.001328,0.002494

It looks like a nuclear submarine, with a model of the mountain from
Close Encounters on each end. It has an entrance door at each end,
presumably locked. AFAIK it's not near any underground railways.

What is it?

According to the Brixton Society, "You may wonder what is the odd looking concrete structure in the
middle of the "motorway"; it encloses the boilers for heating the housing estate alongside."

I have always thought it looks like the foundations for a flyover, if you can imagine it going across
Akerman road. The society's website also says the dual carriageway was part of a Brixton bypass
which was never completed, so I suppose the sructure could have originally been designed to
carry a road across the dual carriageway. From where to where, I don't know (Stockwell to
Camberwell?)

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Steve
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"John Rowland" wrote in
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http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&t=...723,-0.106178&
spn=0.001328,0.002494

It looks like a nuclear submarine, with a model of the mountain from
Close Encounters on each end. It has an entrance door at each end,
presumably locked. AFAIK it's not near any underground railways.

What is it?

For many years to locals it was known as the submarine.