London Under

London Under is a wonderful, atmospheric, imaginative, oozing short study of everything that goes on under London, from original springs and streams and Roman amphitheatres to Victorian sewers, gang hideouts and modern tube stations. The depth below is hot, warmer than the surface, and this book tunnels down through the geological layers, meeting the creatures that dwell in the darkness, real and fictional - rats and eels, monsters and ghosts. There is a Bronze Age trackway under the Isle of Dogs, Anglo-Saxon graves were found under St Paul's and the monastery of Whitefriars lies beneath Fleet Street. There is also a door in the plinth of the statue of Boadicea on Westminster Bridge which leads to a huge tunnel, packed with cables for gas, water, and telephone lines.