Posted by The Thing On The Doorstep Hello, this is my first post. I'm interested in Victoria's history, its underground and its abandoned buildings and I might have some exciting oportunities soon. I own a business on Johnson Street with a basement. At the far end of the basement is a door leading under the street. The building is from 1892 and, like the Empress Hotel picture above, this room has a bricked off doorway at the back of it that I've been seriously considering bashing through. It may not take me into a tunnel per se, but at least it will be an adventure. |
Posted by The Thing On The Doorstep Hello, this is my first post. I'm interested in Victoria's history, its underground and its abandoned buildings and I might have some exciting oportunities soon. I own a business on Johnson Street with a basement. At the far end of the basement is a door leading under the street. The building is from 1892 and, like the Empress Hotel picture above, this room has a bricked off doorway at the back of it that I've been seriously considering bashing through. It may not take me into a tunnel per se, but at least it will be an adventure. Has anyone been into the parkade on Broad Street? It's the one that now has an electric gate (across from the television station)? Ten years ago, when my curiosity was at a high, I wandered through the parkade and out the back, where it doubled back underneath itself to a sub basement parkade with the most amazing series of arches leading directly under Broad Street. The arches, like these mysterious doors, were boarded off from the other side. My memery isn't too great as to whether they were bricked off or boarded, but they were big enough arches for, say, horses and carriages to fit through. I have lots more to talk about if anybody cares. I hate being new to boards when I'm uninvited, but shall I go on? |
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