Ian Fleming, author of James Bond, worked with Winston Churchill's espionage organization in the Kingsway Exchange tunnels, which will be revived as a military intelligence museum. Spanning 8,000 sq meters and originating from WWII, these tunnels have a rich history of being repurposed from wartime activities to Cold War communications. The museum, set to open in 2028, aims to showcase original artefacts and provide insight into the significant role of military intelligence and espionage in history.
The Kingsway Exchange tunnels complex, stretching out across 8,000 sq metres beneath High Holborn, near Chancery Lane underground station, hosted the Special Operations Executive (SOE)...
Plans to breathe new life into this long-abandoned second world war subterranean network will include a permanent exhibition about the history of military intelligence and espionage.
The tunnels were never used for their original purpose... to protect Londoners during the blitz but was not completed until 1942.
Construction of the Kingsway tunnels under Holborn in London began in 1940... later, the SOE moved in to dream up all manner of imaginative ways to thwart the Nazis.
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