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Re: So, the underground tunnels...

Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 6:42 pm
by J.R.
Oooh ! You cynic, Julian.

Having wandered the dark dank total lengths of the 'Tube' in my time, I NEVER EVER got my leg caught between two rocks !

I never saw a 'spook', HOWEVER, I did once...........

I did once....................................

'ARGHHHHHHH !'

Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 7:39 pm
by Cazzro
I have seen the film 127 hours :P

Re: So, the underground tunnels...

Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 7:50 pm
by jtaylor
Well rules are rules I guess! Twas the same whilst I was there, it was out of bounds - we all chose to abide by the rules, break them, and/or try to get them changed. "You make your choice, you take your chances....."

There are official tours on Old Blues Day - maybe you could get onto one of those? Or better, perhaps request official tours be run for pupils - perhaps in return for a donation to Children in Need, or some volunteering, or some other charity?

Just a thought...

J

Re: So, the underground tunnels...

Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 7:59 pm
by Cazzro
Yeah i had that thought and i will be asking but somehow i dont see it happening though, thanks for your help anyway.

Re: So, the underground tunnels...

Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 1:31 pm
by J.R.
Just for the record, thanks to a PM, I have discovered that Cazzro and I are both Dorkinians and live about a mile apart.

We are conversing by PM and I look forward to meeting him during a weekend break on holiday period, probably at the hallowed ground known as Meadowbank Stadium !

Re: So, the underground tunnels...

Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 3:18 pm
by Mid A 15
J.R. wrote:Just for the record, thanks to a PM, I have discovered that Cazzro and I are both Dorkinians and live about a mile apart.

We are conversing by PM and I look forward to meeting him during a weekend break on holiday period, probably at the hallowed ground known as Meadowbank Stadium !
Why travel all the way to a stadium in Edinburgh when you both live in Dorking? :wink:

Re: So, the underground tunnels...

Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 5:01 pm
by sejintenej
Mid A 15 wrote:
J.R. wrote:Just for the record, thanks to a PM, I have discovered that Cazzro and I are both Dorkinians and live about a mile apart.

We are conversing by PM and I look forward to meeting him during a weekend break on holiday period, probably at the hallowed ground known as Meadowbank Stadium !
Why travel all the way to a stadium in Edinburgh when you both live in Dorking? :wink:
especially with you having gone over to the other (globular) side

Re: So, the underground tunnels...

Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 7:30 pm
by Cazzro
im sorry to say but the meadowbank stadium is in Dorking not Edinburgh :P

Re: So, the underground tunnels...

Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 7:40 pm
by Mid A 15
Cazzro wrote:im sorry to say but the meadowbank stadium is in Dorking not Edinburgh :P

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meadowbank_Stadium

Re: So, the underground tunnels...

Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 7:46 pm
by Cazzro
:P looks alot bigger than our Dorking one but you have to realise there is going to be alot of meadowbanks around the world

Re: So, the underground tunnels...

Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 12:11 pm
by J.R.
Cazzro wrote::P looks alot bigger than our Dorking one but you have to realise there is going to be alot of meadowbanks around the world

This is going seriously 'off-topic', but if it helps.........

http://www.clubwebsite.co.uk/dorkingfc1 ... m_id=78334

Re: So, the underground tunnels...

Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 7:20 pm
by Cazzro
:D indeed offtopic

Re: So, the underground tunnels...

Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 1:50 am
by Straz
There are official tours on Old Blues Day
Indeed Julian, there are. My girlfriend and I had a very enjoyable - and lengthy - guided tour of the Tube on Old Blues Day 2011. It was great fun, and we learnt a lot.

The tour took us from Peele to Leigh Hunt, with a little diversion up one of the cloisters/chapel tunnel. It was a fascinating journey and brought back many memories. And, unlike certain contributors to this post, walking - or rather crouching - along the sub-tunnel to the cloisters/chapel was something I had never done during my entire time at CH.

Highly recommended. Just watch out for the asbestos...

Re: So, the underground tunnels...

Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2012 12:21 am
by J.R.
Farnaz wrote:Didn't Crispin Ashcroft run away with a suitcase into the tunnels?

Sounds like something from 'The Great Escape' !

Re: So, the underground tunnels...

Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 10:34 pm
by Thepuss
Westondonkey wrote:
Roger Martin cleaned out one of the rooms, put in some printing equipment and called it 'The Gallows Press'
He did indeed... It was running a few years before I arrived, although he "relaunched" it in 76-77 and I joined it as a hobby and ultimately ran it myself until I left... and very profitable it was too! The room we originally used was... well as you went down into the tube from the central lobby of the Barnes block, the trunk room was immediately ahead at the bottom of the stairs, "The Gallows" was the first proper room if you turned left (there was a store cupboard just before it, I think).

As a result of this "position" I was officially allow down the tube any time I liked. We move to the first room on the right, on the ground floor of the Prep Block in about 1981, as they started getting concerned about the state of the tube, but also because there was quite a lot of relagging going on down there.

Incidentally, the drying rooms were great places for trying to brew beer...

ThePuss.