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At U.K. Parliament, Long-Forgotten Secret Passageway Is Discovered in a Wall
- toxicFork 7y agoRelated: Secret doorway in UK Parliament leads to historical treasure trove (bbc.co.uk) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22421365 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22421365
- onion2k 7y agoThe door to the passageway was installed in 1950. It's not that long-forgotten, especially relative to the building it's in which is more than 1000 years old.
- amelius 7y agoThis shouldn't have been overlooked by security officers.
- chrisseaton 7y agoWhat do you want them to do? X-ray the building?
- g4d 7y agoIt's only 70 years old, it should be on plans of the building or someone probably remembers it...
- chrisseaton 7y ago> it should be on plans of the building But it wasn't.
- g4d 7y ago> The team was at the Historic England Archive poring over some 10,000 uncatalogued documents relating to the palace when they found something interesting: plans for a doorway in the cloister behind Westminster Hall. > Back at the palace, they found that tiny keyhole in the wood paneling — just where the plan suggested it would be. The plans existed, were just uncatalogued.
- penneyd 7y agoIn the video they showed on the BBC the 'secret' door had a keyhole in the wooden panel, not exactly super secret.