It’s emotional,” said Angus Murray, chief executive of The London Tunnels, standing in an arched steel cavern as London Underground trains rumbled overhead.
Murray, a former investment banker, hopes to turn the tunnels into a memorial to the Blitz, which he says will be part museum, part exhibition and part entertainment space.
London Tunnels: The huge new tourist attraction to open under the city The abandoned network has mostly stood empty since the 1970s.
London’s newest major tourist attraction will soon open in a sprawling network of World War Two tunnels.
Built to shelter Londoners from German bombing raids during the Blitz, the mile-long tunnels lie beneath Holborn.