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▲ samstress an hour ago

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.

▲librasteve an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Reading (the largest town in the UK btw) has other tunnels … for example https://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/14492484.sneak-a-pea... and there is a rumour of secret escape tunnels from the (medieval) abbey.

▲hermitcrab an hour ago | parent [-]

Swindon has a significantly larger population than Reading.

▲librasteve an hour ago | parent [-]

dang … guess I am stuck in 1961 https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/census/EW1961PRE/1?utm_so...

fwiw I just threw this in since many on HN probably don’t know much about Reading

red face

▲hermitcrab an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Swindon has been growing like crazy. ~92,000 in 1961 to ~233,000 in 2021. Passing Reading's population in the 90s.

>many on HN probably don’t know much about Reading

Maybe it is better that way. ;0)

▲dcminter an hour ago | parent [-]

It's a city that can be annoyingly hard to Google. If, for example, you search for "Reading Library" you basically get ALL THE LIBRARIES... :)

▲hermitcrab 36 minutes ago | parent [-]

It's still a town (despite efforts to the contrary).

▲jimlikeslimes an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I thought it was made city status a while back too!

▲hermitcrab 37 minutes ago | parent [-]

Nope.

"In the end, the 2022 contest saw Reading beaten to the post by Dunfermline, Bangor, Douglas, Doncaster, Wrexham, Colchester, and nearby Milton Keynes. "

https://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/25782760.reading-not...

A lot of sources seem to cite Reading as 'England's largest town' but maybe that is by area, rather than population? Also depends on where you put the boundary.

▲pluc an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Underground kiez would kill in Berlin