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What is visible to the nude eyeball has been exhaustively raked over; in Underground London, acclaimed travel article writer Stephen Smith has an alternate guide and history of the administrative centre. It's a journey through the passages and tunnels of the town, the bunkers and tunnels, crypts and shadows. As well to be a contemporary travel of underground London, it is also an exploration through time: Queen Boudicca is beneath System 10 at King's Cross (story has it); Dick Turpin fled the Bow Avenue Runners along magic formula passages leading from the cellar of the Spaniards pub in North London; the remains of the pre-Christian Mithraic temple have been found near to the Bank of England; on the systems of the now defunct King William Avenue Underground, posters still alert that 'Careless converse costs lives'. Stephen Smith uncovers the secrets of metropolis by walking through sewers, tunnels under such places as Hampton Courtroom, ghost tube stations, and prodigal rivers such as the Fleet and the Tyburn. That is 'alternate' history at its best.

Category: History