London's Blitz Shelter Tunnels to Become a New Tourist Attraction LONDON (Reuters) - Tunnels built to shelter Londoners during World War Two bombing by Germany are set to be transformed into the ...

By 1942, when the purpose-built tunnels were finished, the Blitz had ceased so they were never used for shelter. "It's real. It's emotional," said Angus Murray, chief executive of The London ...

World War Two tunnels to be transformed into tourist attraction, in London ...

The tunnels, which are a mile (1.6 km) long and tall enough in parts to fit a double-decker bus, lie under Holborn in central London. They were dug by hand starting in late 1940, when German planes ...