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They are hidden in plain sight.
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00:00Hello and welcome to another edition of Look Around London.
00:04Leinster Gardens in Bayswater, London looks like a row of elegant Victorian houses, but
00:10there is a secret. Numbers 23 and 24 aren't real homes at all, they're fake facades.
00:17Back in the 1860s, when the world's first underground railway was being built, engineers
00:22used a method called cut and cover, digging trenches for the tunnels and then building
00:27over them. To keep trains ventilated, they needed open spaces along the line and at Leinster
00:33Gardens, two houses had to be demolished. But rather than leave an ugly gap between houses
00:39in a wealthy neighbourhood, the railway company built a false front that matched the rest of
00:44the terrace perfectly. It's just a wall about a metre and a half thick, with painted windows
00:49and a door that leads nowhere. If you walk around the back, you'll find the exposed railway
00:54line.
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