subterranean london

You don’t need to be good at drawing…it’s the idea that counts.

Aldwych station tours, an illustration prize, and Londonist’s M@ on Ultimate Secret London.

Spooky goings-on in the basement of Shoreditch Town Hall.

The final word in underground London.

One of London’s greatest living chroniclers heads underground.

Fans of the hypogeal rejoice. Illumini, who masterminded this summer’s Secret Subterranean London exhibition at Shoreditch Town Hall, are back with more sub-surface showmanship. They’ve bagged the catacombs beneath St Pancras Church, Euston Road for an alternative Christmas grotto (almost apologetically entitled ‘Crypt-mas’). The torch-lit …

A warm welcome to the world of London blogging for Daniel Brackley, aka The Sewer Man. As a flusher for Thames Water, Daniel knows the feculent subterranean crannies of our city as well as anyone whose surname isn’t Bazalgette, and has acted as Londonist’s guide …

We’re standing in a dark tunnel a little way underground, beneath what was once a major Roman junction and near the source of a lost river, listening to a bearded vicar tell slightly tall (but nevertheless gripping) tales about ghostly apparitions, the Necromancer, and the …

The BBC has taken a tour (video) around St Mary’s tube station for part of their ongoing series, The London Nobody Knows. Opened in 1884, the station was situated between Whitechapel and Aldgate East; when the latter shifted eastwards and opened a new entranceway just …

The grand Portland Stone edifice of Somerset House is a place of merriment, arts, concerts and sedate riverside dining. But beneath the elegance and grandeur lies a little-known sequence of passages, chambers and vaults. We took a remarkable tour beneath the famous courtyard and into …