The station, which closed in 1934, was revived to control anti-aircraft batteries to protect London from air raids. It will go on sale next month.
Julian Chafer, an MoD surveyor who has been working on the site, told the Telegraph: “There would have been maps on the walls, there would have been perhaps an operations table and perhaps a scale model of part of the city, actually physically moving scale models about with the anti-aircraft batteries so people could envisage exactly where they were in the city.”
Sinister history of common phrases revealed
The dark history of common sayings such as ‘gone to pot’ and ‘rule of thumb’ has been uncovered. Using old newspapers, Genes Reunited found ‘paying through the nose’ was a Viking punishment of slitting the nose of anyone who refused to pay tax, while ‘rule of thumb’ refers to a ruling that a man was entitled to beat his wife with a stick provided it was no thicker than his thumb.
Permission granted to examine ‘Prince Alfred grave’