Bombing during the Second World War, however, altered this pattern by bringing home to civilians the horrors of war. Air attack during the Blitz in 1940 made London a battlefield, and Peter Stansky ...

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," says Mr 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 ...