Corsham

First quarried in the 19th century, it is now known as Corsham Cellars, owned by Cert Octavian, one of the U.K.'s largest private wine-storage facilities.

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W Stephen Gilbert Corsham, Wiltshire• The footballing pensioners of Tunstall Town FC Sport, 14 March finished the season having lost all of their 28 games, scoring five goals and conceding 275.

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Courtesy of Octavian Corsham Cellars, where many of the world's finest wines are stored 30 meters below ground.

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It isn't unusual for private clients to pay a visit to Corsham Cellars, where from above ground they can watch their cases of wine loaded onto the industrial goods train as it makes its way down one of the main shafts, nine meters below ground, into an area the size of 20 football pitches.

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When the first tunnels were excavated, much of the honey-colored sandstone was used to build the Georgian town houses in the nearby towns of Bath and Corsham.

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Courtesy of Octavian Sketches on the Corsham Cellars' walls depict its munitions storage days at Eastlays mine during World War II In fact, such is the attention to detail that the company has installed three photographic studios to meet the demand of clients wanting to see emailed photographs of their stored bottles of wine.

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The secret destination was known as "Burlington", a subterranean network of tunnels near Corsham in Wiltshire.

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Breaking into Corsham Cellars would require the sort of elaborate heist fictionalized in "The Thomas Crown Affair."

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Yesterday I went to the auction preview - at Corsham, near Bath, of their antique sale being held today that had several medium quality but attractive Victorian pictures - see below.

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Built during the late 1950s near the town of Corsham, out in the west country, it is now for sale, which may be the best single symbol of cultural transformation from Cold War times.

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