Under Oxford Street

Some thoughts on point 2. the Selfridges one is a whole separate catacomb according to the talk this week.

So we have this underground feature from point 2 (see link below)...

....and also the other one reported to be under what used to be one of the UK's biggest shoe shops (???maybe Dolcis???) which was aquired by Sears (the guy who did the aquistions for Sears called into the BBC London show to confirm this with talk of cobbled street and old shop fronts). Apparently the shoe shop has now gone but was near the South Molton Street area of Oxford St. The level of the street seems to coincide with the route of the River Tyburn which runs under Grays Antiques.

Here's some more evidence of what is under Selfridges http://www.timeout.com/london/features/2241/4.html

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Fabby idea,

we could do with a historian on the team, as well.Any ideas ?
My office are happy to help and get involved if needed.


On the radoi shoe a chap mentioned that he gained access vai a basement door of Pizza hut on the corner of the street????
:applause:

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I've wrote for both these threads, Ghosts of oxford street and Under Oxford Street.

If my memory serves me right it was John Altman who ended up down in this odd area. Here are some stills i have taken from the this part of the film. Check out the top lefthand of the scenes.

Hover it could be VERY easily argued that this is just a film studio. Blimey, if the Americans can fool the world they put people on the moon then I'm sure you can......

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Great stills! You defn get a feel for there being 'catacombs' down there - wonder if any of the production team are contactable still to get info of the exact location?

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Robert Elms had the subterranean street under Oxford Street as a topic on his radio show on BBC London last week (October 2) and asked people to ring in about it.

A plumber (I think) rang in and said it was true that there was an underground row of shops - probably pre Victorian - in the foundations of a shoe-shop thought to be Lilly & Skinner.

He had to do some work there and was taken down about three floors underground into a basement where there was a hatch.

He went through and there was an alleyway, complete with a cobbled stone floor and a row of shop fronts going down into the darkness.

They still had the wooden frames - some with glass still in them and paint peeling off.

The rear of the shops had been filled in with concrete for the foundations of the modern buildings above.

The doors still worked.

He said it was really spooky down there.

Another guy - a surveyor - backed up this story and described it as well.

Can't believe this sort of place can still exist

I'd love to find out more about this "ghostly" shop arcade.

Why wasn't it flattened when they built the modern buildings above?

It really is fascinating.

Help!

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thank you for that!! i find london to be a fascinating city, like all those closed underground stations.

id love to know if there are any more, its a possibility.

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Check out subbrit.org.uk lots of great hidden underground stuff

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oooh it gets better i want to go see!

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