Posted on 03/17/2004 6:04:02 AM PST by vannrox
Though most urban areas have some disused train tunnels or underground sewer lines, if you know where to look.
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I haven't been to a good disorderly masked ball in quite some time.
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There was a problem with great fat spiders at one of the Royal residences a couple years ago. Women screamed, strong men fainted, gardeners reached for their trowels.
They better watch their backs for Daleks sneaking around corners.
I ran into that movie on tv a few years ago. It must have been extremely good because I actually watched it.
I love exploring old ghost towns and such. I've always wanted to explore the subway system in NYC and the hundreds of miles of tunnels underneath Paris.
Ed
"There are disused and bricked up underground stations and train stations all over London, as you might imagine"
I just read a neat book on the underground city in Edinburgh, very interesting reading.
I'm also reading a book on the forgotten islands of New York City and about all the abandoned buildings on some of them.
Ed
Whats the name of the book? Or Author?
There was an article in Scientific American about 20 years ago concerning another chalk mine in England. It operated for more than 500 years, in prehistoric times. Apparently flint occurs as "nodules" in chalk and it is the search for the flint that occasioned the extensive tunneling in these mines.
The book on the underground city beneath Edinburgh is called "The Town Below The Ground, Edinburgh's legendary underground city," by Jan-Andrew Henderson.
It's published by Mainstream Publishing, of Edinburgh.
The book on the lost islands of NYC is a book I bought at the Governor's Island book shop.
They just opened up Governor's Island to public tours, it is WAY cool!!
Not as cool as exploring Gold Field or Gold Point, Nevada, two ghost towns in the Nevada high desert, but still, very, very neat to explore.
Ed
Pinging you to post # 24.
How interesting DC, and thank you so much for the ping.
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