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Opera In A Tunnel Shaft: Pop-Up Don Pasquale

See a Donizetti farce — in the ventilation shaft to Brunel’s Thames Tunnel.

Ready to roll, by LiamCH

The Friday Photos: London Tunnels

Foot, canal and road tunnels of all shapes and sizes.

Photo taken by larkey under a Creative Commons License

Boris Johnson Proposes Hammersmith Tunnel

“Elevated monster” may make way for underground development

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In Pictures: Brunel’s Thames Tunnel

To mark the end of the EAST Festival, and as the East London Line prepares to re-open after two years, the London Transport Museum and the Brunel Museum offered about 2000 members of the public a unique opportunity to turn Brunel’s tunnel under the Thames …

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Photo of the Day: I want to break free

Capturing the feelings of being trapped in a large city, the symmetry and mood of this photo is thought provoking. If only it was possible to escape into the nearest reflection. Photo by toguko via the Londonist Flickrpool.

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The Saturday Strangeness

67. Subterranean Dwellers As a child I was always peeping from the stairs at the latest horror movie my mum and dad had hired. One such shocker was the 1972 Brit-flick ‘Deathline’, also known as ‘Raw Meat’, which concerned the horrific rumour that a race …

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For Whom The Toll Tills Bell….

Londonist has learned today of a rather excellent lobby to abolish the Dartford tolls. This idea makes us very happy. The government is raking enough money in from motorists as it is, and this goose has laid enough golden eggs for the Department for Transport …