Secrets of the London Underground - Season 3 Episode 6 Leicester Square and Hyde Park Corner
Tim and Siddy are exploring the station in the beating heart of London's theatreland - Leicester Square. It's a place adored by tourists and culture lovers but very few know of the secrets hidden below ground. Siddy reveals the extraordinary previous life of the station office - as a display cabinet for V&A antiquities. The pair then ride what was once the world's longest escalator at 54m, explore layers of the stations design history hidden in unassuming cupboards and see the unique wartime communication infrastructure still stored in abandoned lift shafts. Tim learns more about the work to preserve the networks heritage from TFL's Ann Gavaghan.
Siddy visits the tourist hot spot of Hyde Park Corner, where the stunning Oxblood Leslie Green station building has had a renaissance as a high-end hotel. She delves into its abandoned cross passages, adorned by stunning original tiles and reveals enormous fans and gloriously aging stair shafts.
Year: 2024
Genre: Documentary
Country: United Kingdom
Studio: U&Yesterday
Director:
Cast: Tim Dunn, Sigurbjörg Alma Ingólfsdóttir
Crew:
First Air Date: Jul 19, 2021
Last Air date: Sep 03, 2024
Season: 4 Season
Episode: 36 Episode
Runtime: 44 minutes
IMDb: 7.40/10 by 5.00 users
Popularity: 10.996
Language: English
Keyword : subway
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