{"id":650,"date":"2023-10-10T08:30:32","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T08:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smalldivine.com\/?p=650"},"modified":"2023-10-11T12:44:34","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T12:44:34","slug":"wilkinsoneyre-set-to-open-londons-secret-world-war-two-tunnels-to-the-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/smalldivine.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/10\/wilkinsoneyre-set-to-open-londons-secret-world-war-two-tunnels-to-the-public\/","title":{"rendered":"WilkinsonEyre set to open London’s secret world war two tunnels to the public"},"content":{"rendered":"
Architecture studio\u00a0WilkinsonEyre<\/a> has unveiled designs to turn London<\/a>‘s Kingsway Exchange Tunnels into an experience centre<\/a>, revealing their wartime history as a secret government communications exchange.<\/span><\/p>\n Located 40 metres below the street of High Holborn in central London, the passageways were built in the 1940s to provide shelter from the Blitz during world war two.<\/p>\n The tunnels at one point housed the Special Operations Executive, a secret world war two organisation that was an offshoot of foreign intelligence service MI6. During the Cold War, they served as an international telephone exchange.<\/p>\n