Caves in Chislehurst, South-East London suburb, though, and are called caves, but dug entirely by human hands. Their story is full of surprising twists and is lost in the mist of thousands of years – exactly how these man-made tunnels through which you can wander for days.

The caves were first mentioned in written documents in the year 1250, but a huge mine for the extraction of chalk and flints existed long before that. William Nichols, Vice-President of the British archaeological Association, in 1903 stated that they belong to three different eras: the druids, under whom he knew the most ancient inhabitants of England, the Romans and the Saxons. It is difficult to say on what basis Nichols dragged to the case of the druids (no material evidence that there is), but is now thought to be the oldest developments about 8000 years.

In this can even believe: chalk mountain at all times was essential to man. They made lime lying here flint nodules – material for ancient cutting tool and manufacturing Agnew. And, of course, the whole of the era it took to cut through 35 kilometers wide tunnels that today you can walk as the streets.

In the eighteenth century it was mined for flint muskets of the British army. The legend says that here was hiding the goods smugglers. After 1830 the caves were abandoned – to the First world war, when they placed a portion of Velichkova Arsenal. But the hour of the caves came in 1940, when they had created an entire underground city with fifteen-thousand population of refugees, electric lighting, hospital and chapel. There's even born and was baptized a girl named rose of Cavena Women.

Today the cave Chiselhurst a popular tourist attraction. Here lead tours. Underground travellers distribute these kerosene lamps, and in children the adventure begins. In the corners of the tunnels meet wax figures: miner here with Kyle, here light two the British officers. On the walls here and there carved image, there is a sculpture on a sort of altar. The shade of the centuries, the footprints of bygone eras.

But walking in tunnels not only the echo of antiquity. Now this place is popular among musicians. Performed here by David Bowie, Jimmy Hendrix, the group "rolling stones", "Pink Floyd", "led Zeppelin", "Status quo".