What I learnt about Britain's past and future from climbing into Sheffield's Megatron: David Richards
Last week I climbed down into the Megatron. It sits beneath Sheffield station, a Victorian chamber so large that urban explorers compare it to a cathedral, though no cathedral I know of has a river…
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