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The Library Beneath the Subway

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The Library Beneath the Subway
Subterranean brick library archway
Archway between Aldwych and Holborn abandoned branches.

Every notebook ever forgotten on the Circle or Piccadilly lines has found its way to these cedar shelves. Station cleaners from four generations have maintained the catalog.

Visitors may read any volume freely, under one condition: before departing, they must write a single true confession in the registry book by the turnstile.

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