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Take cover!
The deep-level tunnels of the Tube served as air-raid shelters during World War II. Nowadays it tends to be the homeless who take refuge there on cold nights.
[The following extract is translated from the French]
"There was one under each of the massive 3ft-wide pillars, little vagrants sitting there as if under the protection of a mother, who had gathered in the station, perhaps because there was nowhere else they were allowed to enter; perhaps because they longed for a place that was always crowded; perhaps for the water they were able to drink, or in the hope of being thrown the odd coin from time to time;"
Hotaro no Haka (Grave of the Fireflies), Nosaka Akiyuki, translated from the Japanese into French as La Tombe des Lucioles by Patrick De Vos (Editions Philippe Picquier)