What is visible to the naked eye has been exhaustively raked over; in UNDERGROUND LONDON acclaimed travel writer Stephen Smith provides an alternative guide & history of the capital. It's a journey through the passages & tunnels of the city the bunkers & tunnels crypts & shadows. As well as being a contemporary tour of underground London it's also an exploration through time: Queen Boudicca lies beneath Platform 10 at King's Cross (legend has it); Dick Turpin fled the Bow Street Runners along secret passages leading from the cellar of the Spaniards pub in North London; the remains of a pre-Christian Mithraic temple have been found near the Bank of England; on the platforms of the now defunct King William Street Underground posters still warn that ' Careless talk costs lives'. Stephen Smith uncovers the secrets of the city by walking through sewers tunnels under such places as Hampton Court ghost tube stations & long lost rivers such as the Fleet & the Tyburn. This is 'alternative' history at its best.