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Vaults of ambition: shock find under London Museum enchants its builders (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] rosamundi@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Plans get lost, stuff gets bricked up, there were a number of bombs fell in that area during WWII (http://bombsight.org/?#16/51.5187/-0.1039), it can mean expensive surprises when doing building work.

When they were building the Eurostar tunnels down the road from me they found a load of disused wells that nobody had any idea existed, with unfortunate results.