{"product_id":"abandoned-britain-100-forgotten-places-and-the-surprising-stories-behind-them-9798258998248","title":"Abandoned Britain: 100 Forgotten Places and the Surprising Stories Behind Them","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Rory Denham\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Sociology - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBritain is full of places that were built, used, and then simply stopped.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Tube station sealed in 1994, once used to help coordinate the national rail network during the Blitz. A nuclear bunker beneath a Cheshire farm field, officially denied for fifty years. A fishing village on the Aberdeenshire coast with no road access, emptied by one night's storm. An underground city built for 4,000 civil servants, stocked for years, and used exactly once - for a single fire drill.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbandoned Britain tells the stories behind 100 forgotten places.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor each location, this book answers three questions: \u003cbr\u003e- Why was it built?\u003cbr\u003e- What caused it to close?\u003cbr\u003e- What happened next?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a photographic survey or a ghost tour - it is a \u003cb\u003efact-led investigation\u003c\/b\u003e into the decisions, economics and politics behind the places most people pass without noticing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat you'll find inside: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e18 underground places\u003c\/b\u003e - ghost Tube stations, wartime command centres, chalk caves that sheltered up to 15,000 people per night during the Blitz\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e15 Cold War secrets\u003c\/b\u003e - nuclear bunkers, secret test sites, bases officially denied until the 1980s\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e18 lost communities\u003c\/b\u003e - villages evacuated by military order, towns flooded for reservoirs, Highland settlements cleared for sheep\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e20 industrial ruins\u003c\/b\u003e - the colliery that extracted a million tons and is now listed; the car plant closed the week productivity hit a record high; the ocean liner terminal where the Empire Windrush docked in 1948\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e15 abandoned estates\u003c\/b\u003e - country houses gutted, stripped, demolished or left to the ivy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e14 strange and forgotten places\u003c\/b\u003e - a sea fort that declared itself a sovereign state, a rotten borough that returned MPs with eleven voters, a replica Stonehenge with a live-in hermit\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThree facts per entry. Every fact verified. Every cause of abandonment named.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of \u003cb\u003eSimon Jenkins\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eMichael Portillo\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eBill Bryson\u003c\/b\u003e - and for anyone who has ever passed a sealed building and wanted to know the story.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47883358142615,"sku":"9798258998248","price":1725.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798258998248.webp?v=1781101392","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/abandoned-britain-100-forgotten-places-and-the-surprising-stories-behind-them-9798258998248","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}