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Olympics Missile Plans Challenged By Residents

Leytonstone residents go to court over missiles planned for their roof.

One of the subterranean chambers at Brompton Road, showing a WWII map of London on the left.

Brompton Road Ghost Station To Be Resurrected?

“Proceedings began” yesterday to purchase and reopen the abandoned Tube station.

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Missile Sites Proposed For Blackheath And Shooters Hill

Potential Olympic defence sites revealed.

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Brompton Road Station To Re-Open?

Image by bishib70 As the Piccadilly line screams from Knightsbridge to South Kensington, bending itself around the dense-packed remains of a plague pit interred in the soil, it passes the tomb of Brompton Road, just one of the many long-closed stations that lie strewn beneath …

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The Saturday Strangeness

91. The Phantom Plane When ghost stories concern inanimate objects, and certainly objects said to not have souls as people allegedly do, it’s always of interest to know as to why such things should haunt. The Kentish Independent of December 11th 1975 reported on an …