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Get ready for your next underground adventure! New tickets for Hidden London tours go on sale next week, running until March 2025. This includes a brand-new, revamped Clapham South deep level shelter tour and the introductions of signed British Sign Language tours.
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 | | Clapham South: Subterranean Shelter | Dive 11 stories underground to discover the fascinating story of Clapham South, which over the years hosted wartime Londoners seeking refuge from the air raids above ground, Caribbean hopefuls arriving on the Empire Windrush, and even Festival of Britain visitors.
Join our expert guides, including one portraying a 1940s warden, on our most immersive historical journey yet. Retrace the footsteps of wartime South Londoners spending their first night there, hear first-hand accounts of what it was like to work and shelter there during the war, and discover how Londoners escaped the air raids above ground.
Along the way you’ll get a sense of what the space looked and felt like 80 years ago thanks to newly meticulously recreated spaces, discover authentic wartime artefacts sourced by our historical experts, see what an Anderson Shelter looked like and handle genuine Second World War torches. You’ll also experience sitting on the bunk beds turned benches that families would spend their evenings on during air raids, and hear the stories of those who sheltered and worked there over the years - sometimes even long after the war.
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| |  | | Selected Wednesdays to Sundays from October 2024 to February 2025 | | Baker Street: The World’s First Underground | | Step into a historical journey at one of the oldest underground railway stations in the world. Hear what the very first Victorian passengers thought of underground travel and explore closed-off parts of the station including original platforms and corridors that lay hidden in plain sight - some of which last accessed by the public over 75 years ago. | |  | |
| |  | | Selected Wednesdays to Sundays in October and November 2024 | | Euston: The Lost Tunnels | | Explore a century of the station’s history, from its humble beginnings on the corner of Melton and Drummond Street, to its exciting future as the London terminus for the brand-new High Speed 2 (HS2) line up to the Midlands and beyond. Discover a labyrinth of passageways, preserved vintage advertising poster fragments concealed for over 50 years, and the iconic Leslie Green station. | | | |
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| |  | | Selected Wednesday to Sunday in November and December 2024 and March 2025 | | Aldwych: The End of the Line | | Opened to the public in 1907, Aldwych was never as heavily used as originally intended and closed nearly 100 years later in 1994. The station has had a varied history; from providing shelter to Londoners during the Blitz, to being used for film and TV shoots including The ABC Murders (2018), Darkest Hour (2017), Sherlock (2014), and Atonement (2007). Explore the original ticket hall and lifts and discover abandoned platforms and inter-connecting walkways. | | | |
| |  | | Selected Wednesday to Sunday in November and December 2024 and January 2025 | | Charing Cross: Access all Areas | | Walk under Trafalgar Square as you explore exclusive areas of Charing Cross station that are not accessible to the public. This tour will take you to disused parts of the station, including the Jubilee line platforms that were closed in 1999 but which you may recognise from many famous movies and TV productions since, including Skyfall (2012), Paddington Bear (2013), and TV’s Killing Eve (2019) and A Spy Among Friends (2022). | | | |
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| |  | | Selected Wednesday to Sunday in October 2024 and February and March 2025 | | Piccadilly Circus: The Heart of London | | Piccadilly Circus was London’s busiest station throughout the roaring twenties and the flagship of Frank Pick’s Underground. Behind secret doors you’ll see deserted passageways, original Edwardian design features and lift shafts, and you will learn about the successive layers of renovations that were undertaken to adjust to Londoners’ needs over the last century. | | | |
| |  | | Selected Wednesday to Sunday in October and November 2024 and March 2025 | | Holborn: The Secret Platforms | | Piccadilly Circus was London’s busiest station throughout the roaring twenties and the flagship of Frank Pick’s Underground. Behind secret doors you’ll see deserted passageways, original Edwardian design features and lift shafts, and you will learn about the successive layers of renovations that were undertaken to adjust to Londoners’ needs over the last century. | | | |
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| | | | | Every other Saturday and Sunday, October 2024 to March 2025 | | Secrets of Central London (Walking Tour) | | Explore the area around Theatreland, Covent Garden, Kingsway, and the Embankment with our expert guides. This walking tour reveals little known facts about the area that were pulled straight from our archives. Find out how well-known streets shaped London’s transport systems and get glimpses of iconic Hidden London tour sites. | | | |
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| | Last Chance to Experience this Extraordinary Tour | |
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 | | Down Street: Churchill's secret station | This summer is one of your last chances to see the disused Down Street station, as we are retiring Down Street: Churchill’s Secret Station for the foreseeable future from the end of September.
Located in Mayfair between Hyde Park Corner and Green Park, Down Street had a short life as a working station from 1907 to 1932 but became critical to winning the Second World War when covertly transformed into the Railway Executive Committee’s bomb-proof headquarters. It was from there that the nation’s railways were coordinated, and where Prime Minister Winston Churchill secretly took refuge at the height of the Blitz.
Join us to hear this fascinating story – now featuring new additions including a poignant first-hand testimony from Madeleine Henrey, author of ‘A Village in Piccadilly’, on what life was like for Mayfair residents during the worst days of the Blitz, and a testimony from a wartime steward in the Executive’s mess room.
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