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EXPLORING A FORGOTTEN MI6 TUNNEL IN LONDON
WITH PIX AND VID
BY Shuk Yee Tsang
A maze of Cold War-era tunnels, packed with decaying equipment and relics from a once-secret operation, sits hidden in London, UK.
The footage was captured by Tokyo Scott, 21-year-old urban explorer from Sheffield, UK who explored and shot her experience under the streets of England's capital.
Tokyo says the tunnels were part of a classified MI6 communications bunker system built during the height of the Cold War.
Apparently, it was constructed to house the Special Operations Executive an offshoot of MI6, the site was later expanded to serve as a secure government telephone exchange.
The tunnel system remained hidden under the Official Secrets Act for nearly 70 years.
Inside, Tokyo found dust-covered switchboards, steel doors, faded signage, and even a canteen with a kitchen mixer that, surprisingly, still worked.
Tokyo shared “The moment you step inside, you feel the weight of the past. It's cold, silent, and untouched as if the last person just walked out and locked the door behind them.
“I’ve been fascinated by Cold War bunkers since I was a kid, and this place was like discovering a real-life time capsule.
“People don’t realise what’s hidden just below their feet, it’s incredible how much of it has been erased from public memory.
“The canteen was probably my favourite room. It was like time had stood still. And the fact the mixer still worked? That blew my mind.
“We found it by digging through old declassified documents and Cold War maps, it wasn’t exactly on Google Maps.”
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00:30hey guys what can i get for you have you just got the mixer going yeah that's ridiculous
00:52oh my god that is loud isn't it that is horrible let's go
01:00oh wow
01:06so yeah there's a fire of the 70s and there was a pool tables down here but i obviously
01:11they're not here no more so that's what it looks like obviously and that's their vision
01:18i mean it could work yeah if they just gutted it all out back to the main thing it's not gonna be
01:23anywhere near as big as that picture i like the mold that's my favorite bit look at that serving that
01:28on a table five star when you find bowling pins
01:43but i wanted to show you this this is the best thing by far i love my industrial
01:50i love this and of course we've got the danger asbestos sign so as you've heard from the intro
01:58this place is getting turned into a museum by the end of 2025 all the way through these places which
02:04are literally just called the london tunnels these are very secretive not many people know about these
02:09so this is why it's super super gaulsome but it is very creepy post-apocalyptic vibes
02:17look at this it is very very weird you've only ever seen one bunker on this channel
02:23this one i'll be the second oh my god that sounds like a siren there is possibly people who can come in
02:30here but we're hoping that they are staying at work until monday yeah so there's some chairs and stuff
02:37in here the light and power do work i'm not sure if they do work in here but they do oh oh oh my god
02:48how eerie is that that is horrible i'm not gonna lie i don't like that everyone is a little bit further down the bunker
02:56there's lots of random stuff but it is fallout fire so there's a vault door and that's another train
03:06oh my gosh it's the mic is not doing this justice like it is so scary what's what's the worst
03:15oh my god
03:23this is awful it's like little little like my god this is so creepy it's it's like some
03:34mission impossible stuff it concerns that the fact that hey that says hovering that that's not at zero
03:41the pressure and the fahrenheit is up in here it's a bit of a concern but at least we've got at least
03:47we've got a fire exit and it's like a little industrial in here it's so sick this is the kind of stuff we'd like
03:55to explore what is inside the green door
04:02crumbly wallpaper these papers
04:06hang your car car no it's 1991. so this is our switchboard that's just at the bottom of that room
04:13which has absolutely everything what supplies ventilation co2 equipment and it's pretty crazy to
04:20think that this controls everything like kitchen fire alarm you can see the south north west so just
04:27that one panel wouldn't probably have water control everything so i think we're coming to end of this
04:32export i don't know i don't call it because it's absolutely i know i don't think the lights work down
04:38here somehow oh my god i'm looking into everything yeah it's the light i'm going to say
04:43i'll leave all the information out to do all the switches
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