Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social

Penny. Just. Dropped! There’s a 1937 London Underground photo (by E.O.Hoppé) which circulates on social media, often without exact location. BUT I’ve just realised that it *is* where a brief description sometimes claims -“British Museum station” - tho it closed down four year previously. So it’s not only an abandoned tube station, but was taken in what is a now-barely-accessible sealed off tunnel there too . When TfL granted us access to walk along the Central line tracks one night to explore the site for #secretsofthelondonunderground, by chance we found THAT passageway and hand painted advert (which still has paper signs pasted adjacent from its days as a WW2 shelter). So perhaps subconsciously I recalled Hoppé’s image and took a similar snap - but of our camera crew at work - at 02:44am on 27th Feb 2023. That night we spent exploring forgotten tunnels beneath London’s streets was one of the most extraordinary experiences of my life and I thought you’d like to know the location of this now-famous vintage image is -by a quirk of fate - almost entirely unchanged, 87 years on.