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Hidden London: Clapham South — subterranean shelter

A mile of bunk-lined wartime tunnels under Balham Hill.

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Photo by Matt Brown, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Hidden London is the London Transport Museum's programme of guided tours into parts of the Underground that passengers never see: stations closed decades ago, passages sealed off during rebuilds, and deep-level wartime shelters. A guide takes you down in a small group, and the museum runs each tour on a handful of dates that are released in batches and sell out quickly, so these are booked ahead rather than turned up for.

One of eight deep-level shelters dug beneath London in the Second World War, and later the first London address of many who arrived on the Empire Windrush. Over a mile of corridors and dormitories, with the beds still in place and the graffiti of the people who slept in them still on the walls. 75 minutes, meeting in front of the M&S Food Hall. Selected dates 5 December 2026 to 28 February 2027, £39.

Where
Marks & Spencer Food Hall, Balham Hill, SW12 9EA
Nearest station
Clapham South · 2 min walk

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