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  • 300k in Tilehurst for a house with a pool is incredibly cheap.

    [Looks at interior photos]

    Ah. Anyway.

    Curious how he got planning permission. Or if he got planning permission.

    by TheOtherHobbes
  • What is it with Brits and digging tunnelsystems underneath their houses? William Lyttle ("The Mole Man of Hackney"), "I'm just a man who loves to dig".

    My grandfather had a kind of similar situation in Genk, Belgium where he bought a house and discovered a whole basement system that spanned a good part of the neighborhood.

    by squirly
  • Researching what the article meant by "rocket" (I assumed it was a Britishism), I found this article that includes more pictures.

    https://www.aol.com/articles/unassuming-bungalow-hides-netwo...

    by runako
  • Anyone interested in this might also be interested in Kala on TikTok. She's been building a tunnel system under her house and documenting it for a couple of years.

    https://www.tiktok.com/@engineer.everything?lang=en

    by lftl
  • lowercase m. 15 meters, not 15 million tunnels :D

    If you're interested in secret tunnels, check out Colin Furze on Youtube!

    by looperhacks
  • I, too, one day dream of using my children as labor for my underground tunnel system. To fight the ant, you must become the ant

    I'm joking, but it's heartening to see quirky hobbies by qualified people (he was a civil engineer).

    by fusslo
  • The listing of the property on the auction site:

    https://www.btgeddisonspropertyauctions.com/properties/20260...

    It includes many more photos than the article, as well as floor plans for the subterranean areas

    by _jholland
  • One room even features a secret entrance — hidden inside a rocket by the pool. — Ey — pshhh! :-)

    I used to live in the inner city of Leipzig during my university days, and we had a door in the basement that led to wartime tunnels connecting it to other houses. It wasn't like a massive maze, just a hub with three other paths, each leading to another house nearby. From there, however, if they'd unlocked their doors, you could travel farther.

    I was on a mission back then to befriend and convince random neighbours across the street to open their access doors and get some kind of network going, but I didn't meet with much enthusiasm.

    by samstress

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