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Peter Ackroyd: London Under [2012] paperback BUSIN and urban renewal and theirLondon Under is an atmospheric, imaginative introduction to everything that goes on under London, from original springs and streams and Roman amphitheatres to Victorian sewers, gang hideouts and modern Underground stations. This book tunnels down through the geological layers, meeting the creatures, both real and fictional, that dwell in the darkness rats and eels, monsters and ghosts. From the Anglo Saxon graves under St Paul's, to the hydraulic