It's Elfin's Tuesday Architectural Appreciation thread! This week- Under Ground.

underground biking is that allowed

Giant Robot Troglodyte Dinosaurs

better vid here

Welbeck Abbey has miles of tunnels, a ballroom, library and billiard room, all underground.

Here in Doncaster we had something called the Sand House, used to be a minor tourist attraction, tunnels and carvings in sandstone working sideways from a small quarry. There is a book about it though, but few pics online.

drats – I was going to look for a photo of the underground ballroom at Welbeck, but it seems I was beaten to it by Midlifecrashes!

Grantway > yes, yes I do.

Pah! Ive seen enough of these finely crafted, immaculately maintained underground structures.

Here’s one for Stoner or any other surveyors out there:

These lurveley tunnels link buildings any person who regularly treks up to the Lake District may recognise.

And these are some of the buildings they link:

I surveyed these in 2006 and I know that virtually nothing has been done to them since then, so they won’t have improved with age 🙄

We’ve got loads of underground stuff here in Wiltshire, in the old stone quarries between Corsham and Bath. Something like fifteen miles of tunnels used for an emergency government base, with an access point inside Brunel’s Box Tunnel, and latterly as MOD storage. Another section is used for secure storage of valuable wine, around a billion pounds worth.
More here: http://www.burlingtonbunker.co.uk/