All eyes have been on Downing Street this week, as the nation decides who will be the tenant of of No.10 for the next five years. But even dedicated political junkies might not know that beneath the PM’s home lies a network of mysterious bunkers.
Intrepid urban explorer Dan, from Exploring With Fighters , ventured into the forbidding subterranean world to get a glimpse at the tunnels few top politicians have even seen. The risky, and not entirely legal operation involved Dan’s guide for this trip, Matthew Williams, scaling the side of a building before abseiling down the other side to access the door. That allowed them access into the tunnels some 200 feet beneath the London streets.
“This is a lot different than the other deep shelters we've been to,” Dan explained. “Normally when you enter the the area you've got a spiral staircase going all the way down 200 plus foot on underground and a central elevator in between and you have intertwining staircases..
. but this is so different, you've got a big elevator here.” Heavy steel doors guard the entrance to the maze of tunnels, and underground trains rumble overhead as the team of explorers walked down steel-reinforced tunnels dotted with occasional “stalactites” of limescale.
There are even rubber seals on the doors, to prevent microscopic particles of radioactive fallout seeping through in the event of a nuclear attack. However, the tell-tale signs of water seeping in here and there suggest that the bunker was .
