WWII command centre

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Abandoned Tube station that was used as a WWII command centre to fend off air raids during the Blitz is sold for £53 MILLION

• Brompton Road tube station closed in 1934 because of lack of passengers
• During WW2, the station housed Churchill's anti-aircraft operations
• Hitler's right-hand man, Rudolf Hess, was reportedly interrogated there
• It has been sold by the Ministry of Defence to an anonymous buyer
• The site, near the Brompton Oratory in Knightsbridge, will be developed
• Developer Michael Spink hopes to turn it into 'high quality residential'

By Harriet Arkell




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