![]() ![]() It's said the council wants a restaurant to move in - although that might be a hard sell, considering that any subterranean diners would have to contend with noise from the nearby tunnels, of both the Northern line and Crossrail. It's filled with gardening tools, used to keep Soho Square prim and pretty.īut the hut's future might be somewhat different: in 2015, reports surfaced that Westminster Council was attempting to sell the space underneath. Nowadays the hut is little more than a shed. The only facility was a toilet and it could get quite smelly with all the people down there." "It could take about 150 to 200 people initially although that became less when they put tiers of bunks in. ![]() Leslie Hardcastle, president of the Soho Society explains what conditions were like inside: "It was lined with about 12 inches of brick and had concrete as a roof. During the second world war, the space under the hut took on a new role, as a bomb shelter. ![]()
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