Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

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  2. ingaborg

    I used to travel to school on the tube every day, and was always fascinated by the stations which you pass without stopping. The best were the distant lights and platforms which you saw down a side passage but could never reach. They flashed past before you could see them properly, leaving just an impression of mystery and unknown places.

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  3. Anonymous

    Interesting book

    There’s a book I recently obtained (Emmerson & Beard: London’s Secret Tubes. ISBN 1854142836) which covers the WWII and cold war uses of parts of the tube network. Lots of photos and stories of their use as air-raid shelters or storage for national art treasures.

    As a member of Subterranea Britannica (http://www.subbrit.org.uk/) I am obviously biased in favour of underground things!

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    • Anonymous

      Re: Interesting book

      … and I should have mentioned that I’m Cabbage. Doh! Karen told me to be careful about that…

      @c+!

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    • neilh

      Re: Interesting book

      Theres some fascinating stuff about the shelters used in the war (or not used, in some cases), created on condition that they could be turned into underground lines when the war finished…which I don’t think has happened yet. Take a look at , a bunch of goth ljers with (mainly tube) underground interests.

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