ENIGMA 2000 Newsletter - Issue 21

March 2004
Articles, newsreports and Items of interest :enigma2000-owner@yahoogroups.com

ENIGMA 2000 article - Euston tower

And another piece nearer to home:

We received this interesting snippet from an anonymous reader who worked opposite the Euston Tower, said to be the home of MI5.

"I was browsing the groups supporting files pages on Yahoo, and came across the Euston Tower. Until April last year I worked for ***** who occupied a number of floors opposite the tower (home of the Inland Revenue...allegedly!).

Anyway, ***** moved up the road to Regents Place and whilst we where involved in the IT re-design, we came across the requirement to access cabling ducts below ground. (This was to get BT to use LES's ~ LAN Extension Services, a pair of 1Gb/s Fibres between the old office and the new).

We had a major palava on our hands getting access to these ducts (or rather BT Ignite / BT Global Services did).

Eventually we got the job scheduled, and the great day arrived.

Just as BT re-routed the cables, the Euston Tower site had a fire drill, and total panic ensued.

The upshot of this is that I discovered that underneath Regents Place, and running all the way along Euston Road, are significant cabling ducts (big enough to stand in), with access from the underground car parks along route. These ducts are significantly bigger than would normally be required.

The other interesting facts about this area of London, are that the Abbey National Building have had the same problems getting cabling work done. (This isn't BT's lack of expediency either). There is also a significant underground car park below Euston Tower, and much work has been done of late on this. (Apart from the pretty lights that are in the ground!).

Now I know what Euston Tower used to contain, it explains why the Log Periodic's on the roof used to rotate. (I used to watch them during a smoke break!).

Cherie Blair's trainer (the dodgy one linked to the Aussie con man) used to go to the Gym just there as well, and British Airways filmed a commercial there as well."

[Tnx Reader Anon]

[An interesting rumour pervaded of an underground road way that ran from the centre of London somewhere going south. It has nhever been proved, but neither has it been dispelled. If I remember correctly it even had a mention in Peter Laurie’sbook’Beneath the City Streets’Penguin 1972]