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