Britain's Secret Underground City

Thank you for this article, really interesting read. I wouldn't have believed it without the photos to be honest. It got me thinking. Would be really cool if the facility was still commissioned as I believe such preventative measures should be in place in the leading countries in the world. Not that anyone would ever want to dream of the facility being used for its actual purpose, but who's knows if any event of any proportion was to take place, say a meteor hit earth or something along those lines, it would be nice to know that humanity could and would be preserved to some degree. Umm I think ill stop thinking.. :-)

Fallout 3?

They could do something useful with this, turn it into some kind of tourist attraction, maybe use it for militray purposes, or even make a huge club!.....shame to see a space like this going to waste..

Hey, awesome article! do they do tours around this or anything.... looks to cool to miss!

I attended Michigan Tech university and they have something like this under wadsworth hall. I have been down there and it is quite creepy. Tons of supplies for the cold war. Here is a picture of one of the barrels I pilfered.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3076/3115127611_75dd97f8e6_o.jpg

This is not secret - you pay and enter, and have done for more than a decade.

"although one pub for 4,000 Brits doesn’t seem quite right." LOL, so true.

Xamox:I bet you will feel guilty stealing that water container when humanity's last survivors die of thirst.

They could do it up as accommodation. A shame to waste all that shelter.

when i went to vieatnam i went underground there and i can tell you that compared to that this is like a five star hotel
they should not sell of these buildings we could need them again maybe sooner then later as the world falls in bits

Interesting post. Paris has section of its underground used for storing human bones. Walls filled with former buried bodies. Eerie, but an interesting visit.

This is a really cool article and I loved seeing the pictures when it was first posted. When I went to link to it today for my Art News post I noticed that all of the images are now broken (I ran into this problem with your New Orleans pictures post as well). I just wanted to tell you about it if you didn't know already! :)

Well they say there is a housing shortage in the UK.... why not use this? We could build..... under green-belt land. I know some people would say... who wants to live underground? Well I would.... its not like you cant go outside... It just needs modernising.

The second option is....... A Prison!

im english and i completely agree. 1 pub would only be enough for around 20-100 drunks (depending on how many fights break out)

i wonder if this is able to rent or buy. as i have plans, world domination plans muahaha

Secret? All the locals knew about it! Not been there myself, but I know many have found and explored outlying parts of it although some have now been closed. They should open it properly to the public, we only get to see the upper parts of the mines in tours.

it would make a nice slaughter house or better yet a nuclear waste dump since its deep enough.

nice! a cool place to hide when them zombies are attacking!

"nice! a cool place to hide when them zombies are attacking!"
i agree the will have hard time finding you there x)

wow that's weird!

so when we going to see the new underground bunker, you know the 1 for 2012 how many will that fill and will it be a postcode lottery for entry, science has proven for years that the mayan calander is cleary correct and signs of this has been shown over the last 50 or so years, so that means we have had plenty of time to dig a big hole and fill it full of supplies, i bet oama got hi pot picked out

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This is an interesting story, since I had never heard of this particular place.

Beijing has one, too, but far larger. Today it has restaurants, clubs, shops, hotels, and the like.

During the Cold War, we had several emergency "White Houses" around the U.S., but they were much smaller than this, or at least the one I visited in the early 1970's when I was in college and a military student. I don't remember how many people it could accommodate, but it was, I think, in the dozens, certainly not in the thousands. It was an interesting tour, though we didn't get into certain rooms, such as the communications room and the President's quarters. One thing did sort of creep me out. They had one walk-in refrigerator that was huge -- and larger than the one we had already seen for food storage. I asked the officer guiding us if that also was for food, thinking that people stuck there could have far better provisions, and I wondered why it didn't have any, as the other one had. Ne looked at me like I was an idiot (correctly) and snapped, "Well, we've got to store dead people SOMEwhere!"

In does seem a waste to just close up the one in England, especially since the cat's out of the bag. The one I toured is now a county civil defense facility, which is a reasonable use of it. (Similarly, in the same town there is a long ago decommissioned Nike missle base. It sat empty a long time, then one of the two local universities took it over as a satellite campus -- "satellite," fittingly enough; it houses much of the astronomy department!)