So, the underground tunnels...

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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....................................

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I have seen the film 127 hours :P
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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...

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Yeah i had that thought and i will be asking but somehow i dont see it happening though, thanks for your help anyway.
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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 !
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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:
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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:
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im sorry to say but the meadowbank stadium is in Dorking not Edinburgh :P
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Cazzro wrote:im sorry to say but the meadowbank stadium is in Dorking not Edinburgh :P

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meadowbank_Stadium
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:P looks alot bigger than our Dorking one but you have to realise there is going to be alot of meadowbanks around the world
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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
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:D indeed offtopic
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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...
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Farnaz wrote:Didn't Crispin Ashcroft run away with a suitcase into the tunnels?

Sounds like something from 'The Great Escape' !
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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...

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