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Underground (Miscellaneous: Tunnels, Roads, Bunkers Etc.)

To my knowledge, it's all to do with who owns the tunnel 'entrances'. With the Williamson tunnels, which have multiple entrances some of which have not been opened for nearly 200 years it is a potential legal minefield.
 
James Herbert: A Celebration Of his Life And Work @ Tunnels

Don't mean to bang on but because it includes a famous horror writer I thought it would pass as something worth noting on this board:

James Herbert: A Celebration Of his Life And Work
Thursday March 14th, 2013


As part of the "In Other Words" literary festival taking place across Liverpool between the 23rd April 2013 and 19th May 2013 the Williamson Tunnels Heritage Centre is hosting 'James Herbert: A Celebration Of his Life And Work'
25th April 2013. 7.30pm

Sadly, James Herbert died on 20 March this year, shortly after he was billed as one of the star attractions of the In Other Words festival at an event called Terror in the Tunnels.

Instead we will take this opportunity with Ramsey Campbell, other horror writers and friends of James to pay tribute to the man, his work, and to discuss the undeniably huge impact he had on literature and the horror genre. There will be readings from his stories and audience members are invited to come and share their favourite experiences of reading James’ work and the lasting effect he has had on his readers.

Tickets: £7 or £5 concession
To book tickets for this event go to www.itsliverpool.com/culture

You can also take a pre-show tour of the Williamson Tunnels at the special rate of £3.50. Booking essential call 0151 709 6868 for tunnels.
 
Underground City Of Homeless People Discovered In Kansas City
http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/ ... ansas-city!

By Evan Bleier, Tue, April 09, 2013

Police in Kansas City have discovered an underground city of homeless people built in a wooded area on the city’s northeast side. The camp contained a number of tents as well as tunnels that led to underground rooms.

“One of the tunnels probably went 20 to 25 feet underground towards the back and veered off in another direction about six feet or so, and there was some bedding and some candles,” said community interaction Officer Jason Cooley. “It was kind of in a little hill and probably four feet beneath the surface.” Some of the tunnels were so elaborate that they had PVC pipes installed to provide ventilation, according to The Inquisitr.

Police entered the camp last week to evict the people that lived there because of the deplorable and unclean conditions. Thefts at a nearby grain mill also prompted the visit.

“We’re working to find out if in fact they’ve got kids down here because this is not a safe environment for that,” Cooley said. Officers became concerned when they saw piles of soiled diapers, an indication that some of the homeless residents possibly had children living in the squalid conditions.

Homeless outreach groups say that the eviction from the camp will actually benefit its former residents. “By providing help for these people in this manner, maybe they won’t feel the need to go out and steal because they’re getting services they need to be able to live and survive,” said Carla Brewer of Hope Faith Ministries
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Yesterday I learned a fabulous fact about the Shrewsbury town centre branch of Macdonalds.

Aoparently, once you've collected your 'food' you can go down the cellar to the ancient basement, which is actually part of the castle foundations. Like a dungeon.

It's easy to reach on the train. I'm soo going there. :D
 
We need a trip over there. 8)
 
The Fake Townhouses hiding Mystery Underground Portals

Every city has its secrets, it’s just a matter of finding them…

On a street in Brooklyn that takes you towards the river, where the cobblestones begin paving the road, there is a townhouse that deserves a second look. Despite its impeccable brickwork, number 58 Joralemon Street is not like the other houses. Behind its blacked out windows, no one is at home; no one has been at home for more than 100 years. In fact, number 58 is not a home at all, but a secret subway exit and ventilation point disguised as a Greek Revival brownstone.


Next, we head to London in Bayswater where an up-market residential street just a few minutes walk from the vast greens of Hyde Park cleverly masks another portal to the city’s underworld and the world’s first underground railway.

In the 1860s, a tube line passing through Paddington and Bayswater was constructed and incidentally ran its path directly under 23 and 24 Leinster Terrace. The two five story houses had to be demolished in order to dig through the tunnels but once the finished tunnel was covered, it was decided that the houses wouldn’t be rebuilt … entirely that is.

Today, you’ll see these rather smart looking townhouses in place next to each other, but if you wander round the back of 23 and 24 Leinster Terrace and look over the wall, you’ll find the buildings are nothing more than 5-ft thick facades that disguise a massive gaping hole into the underground.
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Includes photos and a couple of Parisian examples!

http://www.messynessychic.com/2013/01/2 ... d-portals/
 
sherbetbizarre said:
The Fake Townhouses hiding Mystery Underground Portals

Every city has its secrets, it’s just a matter of finding them…

On a street in Brooklyn that takes you towards the river, where the cobblestones begin paving the road, there is a townhouse that deserves a second look. Despite its impeccable brickwork, number 58 Joralemon Street is not like the other houses. Behind its blacked out windows, no one is at home; no one has been at home for more than 100 years. In fact, number 58 is not a home at all, but a secret subway exit and ventilation point disguised as a Greek Revival brownstone.


Next, we head to London in Bayswater where an up-market residential street just a few minutes walk from the vast greens of Hyde Park cleverly masks another portal to the city’s underworld and the world’s first underground railway.

In the 1860s, a tube line passing through Paddington and Bayswater was constructed and incidentally ran its path directly under 23 and 24 Leinster Terrace. The two five story houses had to be demolished in order to dig through the tunnels but once the finished tunnel was covered, it was decided that the houses wouldn’t be rebuilt … entirely that is.

Today, you’ll see these rather smart looking townhouses in place next to each other, but if you wander round the back of 23 and 24 Leinster Terrace and look over the wall, you’ll find the buildings are nothing more than 5-ft thick facades that disguise a massive gaping hole into the underground.
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Includes photos and a couple of Parisian examples!

http://www.messynessychic.com/2013/01/2 ... d-portals/
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Great stuff! Have seen the fake doorway before but will definitely add the false building front to my list of places to check out.
 
JamesWhitehead said:
What a great Blog! Thanks for posting that. :)

I especially enjoyed Ghostly Nightclubs of the Belle Epoque
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I've hunted for more info in the past on the Cabaret d'Enfer. Pictures seem to show it up as far as the 50s but then it seems to have disappeared. As far as I can tell the spot where it used to stand is now a Monoprix supermarket - a different kind of hell altogether!
 
Underground city: Moscow police dig out over 200 undocumented migrants (VIDEO)
http://rt.com/news/moscow-underground-migrant-city-287/

Moscow police raid illegal underground migrant 'city' (screenshot from AFP video)

Download video (12.86 MB)

Moscow police have detained over 200 undocumented foreigners who lived and worked in an underground city made to keep them off the radar of city and federal officials - with a cafe, movie theater, casino and chicken coop.

When police raided the 'city' hidden beneath a market in the capital, they discovered a vast garment complex with 122 sewing machines.

While the workers -181 Vietnamese and 88 Central Asians - were sewing brand-name clothes around the clock, people above ground had no clue what was happening just under their feet. From outside, the underground tailor shops looked like a normal transport garage.

There was also time for entertainment in the hidden city. Police found one room designed to be a Turkish café, with an oven and brazier. There was also a movie theater with 35 seats and a poker room.

screenshot from AFP video



The raid itself was carried out on May 31, but police only recently released video footage of the underground complex.

Raids on migrants are frequent in Russia’s capital, as Moscow is a destination for millions of people from the former Soviet Union and beyond seeking better work than is available at home.

According to some estimates, Moscow is home to 10 migrants working without a registration for every one working legally. The Federal Migration Service believes that as many as 3 million undocumented migrants may currently reside in Russia.

In 2012, federal authorities deported 16,000 foreigners from the city for working without permits to do so.
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I see that the name of Warren Shufelt has been mentioned only once on the Message Board, buried in a thread about pyramids with a link only to a page on the defunct Wunderkabinet.

For anyone who might be wondering if there ever was a city of giant lizards living underneath Los Angeles, here is a treat from the LA Times, 1934 :)
 
JamesWhitehead said:
I see that the name of Warren Shufelt has been mentioned only once on the Message Board, buried in a thread about pyramids with a link only to a page on the defunct Wunderkabinet.

For anyone who might be wondering if there ever was a city of giant lizards living underneath Los Angeles, here is a treat from the LA Times, 1934 :)
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There's a short (2 hours+), excerpt from one of that reptile Icke's stage rants, attached.

But, this story really makes me think of the so-called, 'Shaver mystery', with Richard Sharpe Shaver's pre-Ickeian gish about hidden evil pre-humans, hidden underground and directing all of humanity's misfortunes, using advanced machinery. I wonder if they are all connected?
 
JamesWhitehead said:
I see that the name of Warren Shufelt has been mentioned only once on the Message Board, buried in a thread about pyramids with a link only to a page on the defunct Wunderkabinet.

For anyone who might be wondering if there ever was a city of giant lizards living underneath Los Angeles, here is a treat from the LA Times, 1934 :)
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Thanks. Interesting article. Perhaps this 1930s dig unleashed the base demonics that inhabit the city to this day. LA has for decades been one of the worst cesspools of modern excess. Seems Jim Morrison was onto something (or possessed by something) sub-human pronouncing himself the 'Lizard King' of LA. I wonder if he knew of these catacombs.
 
skinny said:
JamesWhitehead said:
I see that the name of Warren Shufelt has been mentioned only once on the Message Board, buried in a thread about pyramids with a link only to a page on the defunct Wunderkabinet.

For anyone who might be wondering if there ever was a city of giant lizards living underneath Los Angeles, here is a treat from the LA Times, 1934 :)
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Thanks. Interesting article. Perhaps this 1930s dig unleashed the base demonics that inhabit the city to this day. LA has for decades been one of the worst cesspools of modern excess. Seems Jim Morrison was onto something (or possessed by something) sub-human pronouncing himself the 'Lizard King' of LA. I wonder if he knew of these catacombs.
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Buffy tVS & Angel were obviously on to something.
 
Chance of clouds: Gigantic cave has its own weather
12 November 2013 by Lisa Grossman

A GIGANTIC cave that has never seen the light of day is a tough photography target under clear conditions. But this one posed an extra challenge: it's so large and isolated that it has its own weather – including clouds.

"Weather makes its way in, but it can't make its way out," says Robbie Shone, who took this photo of Cloud Ladder Hall, part of China's Er Wang Dong cave system. "It just hangs in there."

While there are several openings to the outside world near the cave's floor, there is only one near the top. That asymmetry traps enough humid air to fill the 6 million–cubic–metre chamber with clouds for most of the year. Cloud Ladder Hall is the second largest cavern in the world, beaten only by the Sarawak Chamber in Malaysia.

For this shot, Shone had three accomplices: one standing behind the frame with a large single-use flash bulb, one standing on the rock to the left shining a headlamp at the cave wall, and a third dangling from a rope hundreds of metres away. Although the shutter was open for only 30 seconds, the whole operation took four hours, with the team communicating via walkie-talkie because the echoes made shouting unworkable. "Before you know it you're in a maelstrom of noise," says Shone.

He sees caves as some of the last mysterious places on Earth. "More people have been to the moon than to some of these caves," he says. "Each time we go into these caves and bring photographs or video back to the surface, it's all new stuff we've never seen before."

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg2 ... urce=NSNS&
 
Rumours persist of secret tunnels under the streets of Blackpool:

Did Blackpool's Strictly thieves really use a secret tunnel network to escape?

The news that thieves broke into a dressing room at Blackpool Tower's ballroom while the stars of Strictly Come Dancing were performing has raised a tantalising theory about their escape route: that they might have accessed a "network of historic underground tunnels" leading from the famous tower to other parts of the town.

Is Blackpool sitting atop a secret warren? It is a persistent rumour. In 2011, the Blackpool Gazette ran an article collecting memories and myths from readers about Blackpool's alleged underground network. One said there was a tunnel which ran from Talbot Square to the tower: "We used to get in there via the basement of the Clifton Hotel kitchens as kids." Another told of linked cellars and a series of underground offices commandeered by communications teams during the second world war.
etc
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First sight of hidden River Roch bridges

The River Roch was the lifeblood of Rochdale at the time of the Industrial Revolution, but in Victorian times it was covered over and forgotten about.

BBC North West Tonight reporter Mark Edwardson was given a one-off tour of the underground medieval bridges, which have remained unseen for a century.

They could now be uncovered in a £4.2m project funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, Rochdale Council and the Environment Agency.
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There's a further link to click with a map and more information.
 
escargot1 said:
First sight of hidden River Roch bridges

The River Roch was the lifeblood of Rochdale at the time of the Industrial Revolution, but in Victorian times it was covered over and forgotten about.
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The river Kenwyn flows in to Truro between the two quaysides that once formed the Port of Truro. But as the river silted, and ships became bigger, the port became redundant, and the area between the old quays was built over with a car park in the 1920s. This was later redeveloped as a modern Plaza.

http://www.trurouncovered.co.uk/step-ba ... e/the-port

More pics on my website:
http://cornwalltidesreach.weebly.com/truro.html
 
Repairs to mine-damaged homes in Camborne continue
[with pics]

A £1m project to secure Cornish houses at risk of collapsing into old mine shafts is continuing.
Work on the properties in Camborne was only due to take a few months but engineering problems have delayed it.

Many houses were built on top of a 300-year-old mining tunnel system, or adit, which became blocked, forcing water up into some houses.
Cornwall Council, which is spending £1.6m on the scheme, said it should be finished by next spring.
Some of the Troon houses are held up by huge steel girders and steel piles which extend 14m (46ft) into the ground.

David Owens, the assistant head of service for environment and waste at Cornwall Council, said: "If you open a whole [sic!] in the ground in Cornwall you never know what you might find.
"The project has taken longer as we've been dealing with extremely difficult ground conditions."

Ian Johnston, Cormacs' site manager, said: "We've got ex-Crofty and Wheal Jane miners. Their experience has been immense."

Two homes in New Street in the village have been underpinned and a new tunnel will be built to replace the collapsed adit.
Eric Parsons, who lives in the street, said: "We can do nothing about it. It's up to the experts.
"They know what they're doing and they can put it right."

Some residents are about to move back into their homes in time for Christmas.
The project is expected to be completed in early 2014

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-25426779
 
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