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  • Why is London the most expensive city to build in?
  • Jamie
    Free Member

    Here’s why:

    [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFODb2Ajm6Y[/video]

    …and in relation to the unexploded bombs, here is a interactive map of all the recorded bombs dropped in WW2.

    http://bombsight.org/#12/51.5051/-0.0900

    Zoom out for fun times.

    martinhutch
    Full Member

    This is a fun site:

    http://mappinglondon.co.uk/

    I was looking for a zoomable tube/sewer/other formerly secret underground bits map but no-one seems to have done one.

    jodafett
    Full Member

    So basically Londons guff!

    aP
    Free Member

    There are maps of underground bits, but not anything AFAIK that covers the whole. One good place is Subterranea Britannica – lots of articles about stuff, you know, down there – points at floor.
    Unsurprisingly the majority are not in the public realm. There is an accessible government GIS site that has quite a lot of information on it, but I don’t have the link handy.

    Sandwich
    Full Member

    See the fun when your building site has a Victorian cemetery under it. Every body dug up and all the soil sifted for body fragments before a pile is sunk. Oh the expense as the bodies are re-interred elsewhere. An interesting H&S exercise too (Horse hair regulations 1900 or so were consulted as this was to reduce disease from infected Crimean Hair).

    CountZero
    Full Member

    Zoom out for fun times.

    I knew there was a reason for the M25! It’s a demarcation line warning people not to venture inside because of things that go BOOM!

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