Does anyone know about abandoned old streets that have been built on top of, and then discovered years later? Apparentley there is one in london, under Selfridges, with ruins of old shops and so on.
2007-12-16 00:11:43 · 8 answers · asked by Madfan 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Britain is rich in underground streets. London has Villiers Street, the massive vaults under the old Whitbread Brewery just off Trafalgar Square. Further afield there are the vast underground quarries in Corsham used during the war as both an ammunition dump and regional Seat of Government (if you go to the BBC Wiltshire site they have a quite amazing film of it.)
Devizes (also in Wiltshire) also has a large network of buried streets and a large number of tunnels.
Britain is a nation of troglodytes
2007-12-17 10:43:01 · answer #1 · answered by crazeygrazey 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All cities of any age have abandoned streets that have been built on. It happens all the time. Time Team investigated the site of some bombed streets in the East End of London which had been covered over. The streets were found complete with remains of the bombed out houses. How cities grow and are built up over time is shown by the large settlement mounds or 'tells' which cover the Middle East - the most famous is probably that of Troy which shows (to the best of my recollection) 7 layers of occupation, each built on top the last.
2007-12-16 00:58:13 · answer #2 · answered by rdenig_male 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There are some Roman and Medieval streets in Leicester (Midlands UK) eg Vine Street and St Margarets. These were excavated over the last couple of years and are now having the extension to the shopping centre built over the top.
You can see some pictures on http://www.le.ac.uk/ulas/gallery/index.html if you're interested.
2007-12-16 04:55:25 · answer #3 · answered by pink_sheep50 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
apparentley theres 1 under oxford street which is where selfridges sits heard this on the danny baker show bbc london 94.9
why not ask him
2007-12-16 01:46:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The streets of York are now some three feet higher than they were.
It is reputed that a legion of Roman soldiers have been seen marching in the City but only the upper part of their torsoes are visible because they are walking on streets at the level when they were occupiers.
2007-12-16 00:34:19 · answer #5 · answered by Veronica Alicia 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Actually, there is a city in Spain which is both under and above the sea: Cadiz. I mean, there's the old Roman city (about 2000 years old) under the sea, and then the "new one", from the Middle Ages onwards, which is over the surface although surrounded by water!!!
2007-12-16 00:25:17 · answer #6 · answered by Maria L 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Edinburgh city centre,well known.
Apparently,they were sealed up during the plague epidemic.
2007-12-16 00:16:38 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
watched a doc on it Seattle Washington has some.it was on discovery channel travel
2007-12-16 00:21:32 · answer #8 · answered by Curtis R 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋