From Wikipedia.
The last post mentioned the baby being born in these caves during a bombing raid in 1941. I'd never heard of them, so...
The Chislehurst Caves is a 22-mile series of manmade caves dug searching for chalk and flint in the southeast London suburbs. The first recorded mention of them was 1250.
During World War I they were used as an ammunition depot.
During the Second World War, during the Battle of Britain's aerial attacks on London, they were used as an air raid shelter. They became an underground city of up to 15,000 inhabitants with their own electricity and even a chapel and hospital.
Rose Cavena Wakeman is the only recorded baby born there.
So, Now We Both Know. --GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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