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ATTRACTION 'AS ICONIC AS LONDON EYE': Secret tunnels come in from cold for £220m visitor experience
Evening Standard
|September 25, 2023
A NETWORK of secret tunnels hidden beneath central London for decades will soon be opened up to the public under a £220 million plan for a huge new tourist attraction "as iconic as the London Eye" unveiled today.
The Kingsway Exchange tunnels, an expanse of 8,000sqm of passageways several hundred feet below High Holborn, were shrouded in mystery for most of the 20th century with details covered by the government's Official Secrets Act, because of their wartime role as a base for MI6 officials.
The site is now set to be transformed into a museum exploring its history and an interactive tourist attraction, after it was bought by a consortium called London Tunnels Ltd.
Construction of the tunnels began during the Blitz in the Second World War to serve as a deep-level shelter, before being used by the Special Operation Executive, Winston's Churchill "secret army" forerunners of MI6.
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