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How did they just so happen to have the key to a hidden door that hadn't been opened in 68 years that they didn't even know existed?
by StarDucks 7y ago
How did they just so happen to have the key to a hidden door that hadn't been opened in 68 years that they didn't even know existed?
- fenaer 7y agoThey didn't have the key. The team turned to Parliament's locksmith for help and, with some difficulty, he was able to open the wood panel door, to reveal a tiny, stone-floored chamber, with a bricked-up doorway on the far wall. Looks like the locksmith picked it maybe?
- gnud 7y agoThe locksmith got the door open. It doesn't say he had the key.
- asynch8 7y agoNope, but the video doesn't mention how they acquired the key either, they just demonstrate how it opens. I'll be honest and say that I didn't read very far into the article either and just skimmed it while listening to the video.
- toyg 7y agoThey didn’t, they made a new key. An old lock for a service door is likely to be trivial to crack these days. Edit: from the Guardian: “Liz Hallam Smith, the team’s historical consultant from the University of York, said: “[...] Once a key was made for it, the panelling opened up like a door into this secret entrance.”
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