{"id":814,"date":"2004-04-27T00:25:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-27T00:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=814"},"modified":"2010-12-22T00:41:17","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T00:41:17","slug":"814","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/814\/","title":{"rendered":"Going underground – Chiselhurst caves"},"content":{"rendered":"

Going underground<\/strong><\/p>\n

After the uber-stress <\/em>of trying to sort out a new server for urban75, a bonkers, up-for-it weekend was definitely called for – and I wasn’t disappointed.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, I finally made my first Urban75 Walk Club meeting, getting up early in the glorious Spring sunshine to meet at the Market Porter pub (by Borough Market).<\/p>\n

A double strength extra-fresh cappuccino from the Monmouth Coffee Company soon dusted off the cobwebs, and the assembled urban75-ers headed off to London Bridge to catch the train to Chislehurst.<\/p>\n

We hooked up with the others in the pleasant beer garden of the rather tatty Ye Olde Station Master pub, before making the short walk to Chislehurst Caves<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sporting a visitor centre straight out of the mid-70s, the caves cover over 20 miles of passageways hewn by hand from the chalk, deep beneath Chislehurst.<\/p>\n

\"Chislehurst<\/p>\n

The caves were dug over a period of 8000 years by Saxons, Druids and Romans excavating chalk and flint, but they were to play a more important role in history when they formed the backdrop to a Dr Who episode!<\/p>\n

In the 1960s, the caves were the ‘it’ place to ‘take a trip’ with bands like Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and Jimi Hendrix getting the subterranean heads nodding.<\/p>\n

There were no such thrills for us, but it’s well worth the \u00a34 to stumble around in the darkness, with only a kerosene lamp to light the way.<\/p>\n

Naturally, many beers were needed after the underground trip, so we stomped through some woods before finding a lovely pub with a large sloping lawn for us to slob all over.<\/p>\n

In the evening, we continued the quaffing with a trip to the People’s Republic of Disco<\/a> at the Windmill, Brixton Hill.<\/p>\n

\"On<\/p>\n

By this time my friends were turning a little odd, donning blond wigs and pulling strange faces, but after a few beers, no one noticed…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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