Last Sunday we were writing aboutamazing undercover diving event rigsin the heart of New York City . It seems only fair that we jump across the pool this Sunday and save about a mile - long super secret tunnel lair below London that ’s currently for cut-rate sale , do n’t you think ? Asking monetary value : A cool $ 7.4 million . It vocalise a bit much for an empty stretch of nothingness late below the British streets , but wait until you hear about the chronicle . Oh , the history !
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This burrow is actually one of eight built by the British governing during World War 2 as a meshing of bomb shelters to protect citizens from the German safety blitz . They could hold 8,000 people and were designed to run for five week without any aid from the out-of-door world . This “ protective cover ” even included “ a bar and two canteens , not in use , and a billiard room , not to mention serve water system and electricity supply , ” reports the New York Times .
However , after their completion , the tunnels were held by to serve as secret base of operation for soldier . They were never used as shelter . Instead , they served as a irregular base for D - Day troops ; one even became the European HQ for U.S. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower . Later , in 1944 , the burrow became bastions of counterintelligence , as member of the confidential service used them to organize resistor movements in Nazi - curb countries . The tunnel , once filled with Normandy invaders , were decked out with spy gear , telephony and teleprinter .
Today , though , the tunnels are empty , and wait for some rich man-about-town veridical estate of the realm tycoon to swoop in and buy them up . Wo n’t you take up that banner , and bid us poor contraption - loving sept to a few parties below the busy London streets ? Please ? [ New york Times ]
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