Exploring the forbidden subterranean world of ghost Tube stations,Victorian sewers and disused shelters has given academic geographer and urban explorer Bradley Garrett a whole new perspective on the cityAt 2am on a cold winter’s night in London final year I was loitering in the shadows on Furnival Street near Chancery Lane tube station with a veteran urban explorer called Lucy Sparrow. Across the street was a six-storey building with scaffolding haphazardly arranged on its facade, pinioned by a large blue wooden hoarding and an aluminium sign reading: “Caution - deep manhole. effect not enter.”Our fingers were going numb in the cold as we waited for a black cab parked at the terminate of the street to leave. It looked like he was taking a break, or listening to a late-night radio show,but after what felt like hours he finally clicked on his lights and pulled absent. We withdrew into the darkness as he drove past. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com