It has been quite a week for boring news.

Loads of Chilean miner chappies brought back up to the top after ages in the dark.

Brand new tunnel linking Switzerland to Italy. Longest in the world

Loads of boring going on.

Who said boring was boring?

yes, a very boring week. Horizontal OR Vertical.

all seems vaguely home-erotic if you ask me, what with all this drilling and pumping, longest tunnels and men going up and down deep dark holes - makes you quite wonder what the world is coming to!

(Pops open Navel History Book and reads about seamen)

Why all that waste of energy>?,just buy a flatpack tunnel from homebase.
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Bodge it & Quick do a cheaper one Cap'n.

Bodge it & Quick do a cheaper one Cap'n.

Eye Key Ah offer free van to take it home in. But since it is nothing but space, there is in fact nothing to take home.

So do not be fooled, my friends.

There's always some comeback, no matter what.

UK version.....or what should have happened to certain reporters.....take your pick....:E

YouTube - Bernard Cribbins "Hole in the Ground" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGk4AKOwJbc)

What it's got to do with you ?, mind yer own business:E

It was announced on the 15th (yesterday) that MGM & Peter Jackson have sorted out the financing problems on three-year delayed "The Hobbit" (due to MGM's near bankruptcy) and filming starts in February. :ok:

That's news enough for me. :)

The Hobbit movie gets the green light | Herald Sun (http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/the-hobbit-movie-gets-the-green-light/story-e6frf7k6-1225939513402)

Gosh, that's wonderful news, if you're about 10.

One had been fascinated by man's tunneling endevors over the years. Amazing.


I'd love to see some futuristic 3D radar map of underground London. The tunnels under the Thames are incredible enough, but the hydraulic and pneumatic pressure tunnels are almost impossible to believe. The cranes on the South side being powered from the north?


The tunnel under the Severn! Millions of bricks. Then the flood, and the diver that had to go back to lock the flood door. And the loss of all the water from wells on the Welsh side. And that's what just sticks in me brainbox.

I have a book about the place somewhere called 'Beneath the City Streets' all about the secret tunnels beneath London, surprised the place hasn't collapsed into them,the dammed place is sitting on a veritable honeycomb of underground workings.
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Always liked the old joke about the two chaps just finishing building a 600 foot chimney when one said "Hang on a minute, I've had the plans upside down we should have been building a well".....

Used to be a tad spooky walking through the Metro tunnels alone with only a wee torch to guide you when the system was being built,even for someone as fearless as Drapes,always kept me hammer handy though.
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There are a lot of tunnels around the Whitehall area in London. Some of the buildings have as many levels underground as they have floors above ground and the whole area, including Downing Street, is inter linked with tunnels, some of which can be flooded from the Thames, should the need arise.

Gosh, that reminds me. What happened to the "The Amazing Mrs Pritchard." ? When she became a TV series prime minister, she escaped Number 10 via a tunnel. Funny series, just got interesting when it ended.


Just North East of St Paul's, they had a Dickens of a job getting rid of bank safes that sounded huge. I think they hadn't been opened for ages. Just imagine being there late at night, and finding the combination under the mat.


Then there's the lost carriages bricked up in a forgotten part of London's underground. I just don't know how they can live without finding them. (mind you, maybe the manager had just seen Quatermass and the pit, and didn't dare look too hard.)

umm...whats supposed to be boring again?
The news or this thread?

" including Downing Street, is inter linked with tunnels, some of which can be flooded from the Thames, should the need arise

Tempting.....very, very tempting......:E

“There are several rumoured escape tunnels from Buckingham Palace. One is said to run under Green Park to the Piccadilly Tube line, giving the royals a speedy escape route to Heathrow. Another is said to give access to the Victoria Line - which runs under the Palace - for a similar escape, and one is said to lead to Wellington Barracks just over the road. More likely is the tunnel running along the Mall to the underground citadel called Q-Whitehall which is rumoured to stretch as far north as Holborn. Supposed evidence of this complex is the huge extractor fan outside the Gent’s toilets in the ICA, which the ICA say is nothing to do with them, and the top-secret fortress on the corner of the Mall and Horse Guards Road which is said to be an entrance to Q-Whitehall. This complex also probably connects to 10 Downing Street via the atom-bomb-proof bunker built under the Ministry of Defence building at a cost over £110 million in the early 1990s.”