bluestreak
HomosexualityIsStalin’sAtomBombtoDestroyAmerica
Cages or deserts.
Underground bar/club near Oxford Street?
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Cages or deserts.
urban myth
zenie
>^^<
Hasn't anyone else been to the one in Halifax then?
Been to what? the bar that isn't underground and didn't used to be a car park?
No can't say I have lol
bluestreak
HomosexualityIsStalin’sAtomBombtoDestroyAmerica
pfft, i'm from essex and i'm telling you, the only way of getting to oxford street from ilford is the number 25 bus
Been to what? the bar that isn't underground and didn't used to be a car park?
No can't say I have lol
I've been to a bar that isn't underground and has never been a car park in Bristol.
It looks fuck all like this so called railway line for gerbils though.
fogbat
The Talibum
I found it, they've got a terrible website: http://www.lot55club.com/
That is a useless website! However the tune mixed perfectly with the remix of Xzibit's Paparazzi which I had on at the same time
Place looks fairly interesting though. Will have to check it sometime.
ChrisFilter
Like a boss.
The flash intro says "Get ready for the worst night of your life"... er... 
ringo
Macaroni cheese controller
I used to supervise archaeological excavations in London for the Museum Of London - there's no sunken street under Oxford Street. It's a lovely idea though.
You only have to look at the age of some of the buildings along Regent Street to see that the street level hasn't changed much in the last two or three hundred years. The medieval layers can go down a couple of metres but they're not buildings as we would recognise them, just layers of destruction rubble and fragments of structures.
You only have to look at the age of some of the buildings along Regent Street to see that the street level hasn't changed much in the last two or three hundred years. The medieval layers can go down a couple of metres but they're not buildings as we would recognise them, just layers of destruction rubble and fragments of structures.
scifisam
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I wonder who started this rumour?
And why anyone would believe that one day, some builders came along to build a whole street of new shops and houses, and instead of knocking down the previous buildings, decided to construct a whole new street a couple of metres up in the air, and build it all on massive stilts.
Wouldn't it have been a bit odd, just having this one new street up in the air?
At least until they did it to the whole area, then it would have appeared quite normal, and you can see how people just kind of forgot about the old streets underneath.....hmmmmmm
Giles..
And why anyone would believe that one day, some builders came along to build a whole street of new shops and houses, and instead of knocking down the previous buildings, decided to construct a whole new street a couple of metres up in the air, and build it all on massive stilts.
Wouldn't it have been a bit odd, just having this one new street up in the air?
At least until they did it to the whole area, then it would have appeared quite normal, and you can see how people just kind of forgot about the old streets underneath.....hmmmmmm
Giles..
Ok, new on here, but this is something i have researched.
There is a Subterranean shopping street that exists under oxford street 2-3 floors below one of the shops on Oxford Street (then a large shoe shop - maye Dolcis), possibly near HMV. This was corroborated by a surveyor who visited the space and confirmed that the street existed with cobbled street, arched doorways, and old shop fronts.
The theory is that the old street was on the bank of the river that once flowed across Oxford Street (you can still see the river in the basement of Gray's Antiques on South Molton/Davis Street under a glass floor). Which is why it is so low down compared to the other buildings on Oxford Street.
This was reserched and aired on Robert Elms, also scenes from ' Ghosts of Oxford Street ' were filmed there.
Also......
one subterranean street reported to be under what used to be one of the UK's biggest shoe shops (???maybe Dolcis???) which was aquired by Sears (the guy who did the aquistions for Sears called into the BBC London show to confirm this with talk of cobbled street and old shop fronts). Apparently the shoe shop has now gone but was near the South Molton Street area of Oxford St. The level of the street seems to coincide with the route of the River Tyburn which runs under Grays Antiques.
This is worth a read http://www.timeout.com/london/features/2241/4.html
Hope i cleared up some stuff, or stirred up some things. Oh, the time out thing is about the underground train movement too, and not the tubes !!!
There is a Subterranean shopping street that exists under oxford street 2-3 floors below one of the shops on Oxford Street (then a large shoe shop - maye Dolcis), possibly near HMV. This was corroborated by a surveyor who visited the space and confirmed that the street existed with cobbled street, arched doorways, and old shop fronts.
The theory is that the old street was on the bank of the river that once flowed across Oxford Street (you can still see the river in the basement of Gray's Antiques on South Molton/Davis Street under a glass floor). Which is why it is so low down compared to the other buildings on Oxford Street.
This was reserched and aired on Robert Elms, also scenes from ' Ghosts of Oxford Street ' were filmed there.
Also......
one subterranean street reported to be under what used to be one of the UK's biggest shoe shops (???maybe Dolcis???) which was aquired by Sears (the guy who did the aquistions for Sears called into the BBC London show to confirm this with talk of cobbled street and old shop fronts). Apparently the shoe shop has now gone but was near the South Molton Street area of Oxford St. The level of the street seems to coincide with the route of the River Tyburn which runs under Grays Antiques.
This is worth a read http://www.timeout.com/london/features/2241/4.html
Hope i cleared up some stuff, or stirred up some things. Oh, the time out thing is about the underground train movement too, and not the tubes !!!
And this is interesting too
I've got a book from the 80s called London Under London which covers all sorts of tunnels, sewage "streets", bunkers, railways etc
However, I have been down to the third level basement under Harrods. And there there is a huge turbine room containing the diesel turbines that provide electricity for the whole shop. These machines are really old, loads of copper and brass, and a wonder to behold. On the level above (2nd basement level) is a "road" that goes under Brompton Road, then
under the shops opposite Harrods and connects up with their warehouse in Trevor Square. This underground road is trafficked by Harrods only little trains, basically electric locos pulling trains of wagons containing all sorts of goods. The first level basement is partly "shop" partly staff area and immediate storage.
Harrods also takes water from its own artesian well.
I can reveal something else about hidden London and one of those bits of little known London history, about a very interesting place I got access to when I was a police officer.
And it is the secret strong room under the Natural History Museum on Cromwell Road that held Rudolph Hess prisoner on his first night in London after he'd been transported down from Lord Hamilton's estate in Scotland where he crash landed. He was then removed to the Tower.
I got to see this special room in the early 90s, when the security office at the NH museum was a tea hole of mine and the head of security there showed me round the "back stage" areas one afternoon.
Apparently this strong room was more than once used as a secret prison to protect the kind of prisoners that were likely to be lynched if the public or other prisoners got hold of them.
Which is why Hess was there and why he went to an ancient cell in the Tower.
x
I've got a book from the 80s called London Under London which covers all sorts of tunnels, sewage "streets", bunkers, railways etc
However, I have been down to the third level basement under Harrods. And there there is a huge turbine room containing the diesel turbines that provide electricity for the whole shop. These machines are really old, loads of copper and brass, and a wonder to behold. On the level above (2nd basement level) is a "road" that goes under Brompton Road, then
under the shops opposite Harrods and connects up with their warehouse in Trevor Square. This underground road is trafficked by Harrods only little trains, basically electric locos pulling trains of wagons containing all sorts of goods. The first level basement is partly "shop" partly staff area and immediate storage.
Harrods also takes water from its own artesian well.
I can reveal something else about hidden London and one of those bits of little known London history, about a very interesting place I got access to when I was a police officer.
And it is the secret strong room under the Natural History Museum on Cromwell Road that held Rudolph Hess prisoner on his first night in London after he'd been transported down from Lord Hamilton's estate in Scotland where he crash landed. He was then removed to the Tower.
I got to see this special room in the early 90s, when the security office at the NH museum was a tea hole of mine and the head of security there showed me round the "back stage" areas one afternoon.
Apparently this strong room was more than once used as a secret prison to protect the kind of prisoners that were likely to be lynched if the public or other prisoners got hold of them.
Which is why Hess was there and why he went to an ancient cell in the Tower.
x
Cloo
Banana for scale
I've read an article about this, too - so I think it does exist. I remember thinking it would be cool to go, but the entrance fee was pretty exhorbitant. Don't think it was called 'Lot 35' and haven't heard anything about it since, so maybe we'de all just imagined it.Anyone know about a new bar/club near Oxford Street? It's apparently a converted underground car park and is made to look like a street with shops, and each shop is a different bar.
Someone told me about this but I can't find any more information.
They told me it was called "Lot 35"?
It sounds cool.
lang rabbie
Je ne regrette les gazebos
Nothing would surprise me. Upon parachuting into Scotland, Hess was first detained in a girl guide hut that was being used as the local home guard station, then interrogated in a boy scout hut in Giffnock that was the divisional command until someome realised who he was and transferred him to Maryhill Barracks. There was a week between his arrival and when he was detained in the Tower of London.
However, the staff of the South Ken museums have created an awful lot of stories over the years to keep themselves amused while doing night patrols, that have now become folk myth among the museum community.
Maggot
The Cake of Liberty
I heard the story on the Robert Elms Show this week. I'm pretty sure it was under Selfridges. It's an 18th Century high st and is 3 floors below street level.
Sounds quite amazing. You cvan listen to the Radio show again here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/mainframe.shtml?http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/london.shtml
But the show is 3hours long and I can't remember how far into the show they covered it.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
I'm sure I read about that club in a mag a year or two back. I think it was super exclusive or something (or pricey?) there were entertainers and wot not too.
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
What a shit website, and soo out of date. The pictures in the gallery are not even real.
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