Aldwych Subway Station To Open This Weekend For 70th Anniversary Of WW2 Raids On London (PHOTOS)

LONDON — A London subway station closed since it was used as a shelter during World War II bombing raids is being opened to the public for guided tours this weekend to mark the 70th anniversary of the Blitz.

The tour including actors in period costumes will allow visitors to experience what London life was when the city faced constant bombing raids between September 1940 and May 1941. Tickets for the Friday to Sunday tours are already sold out.

Mayor Boris Johnson said Thursday that Londoners' bravery and determination in the fact of constant bombardment must never be forgotten.

The Aldwych station where the tours are being held was one of the first London underground stations used as a shelter when the raids began at the start of the war.

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Actors dressed in 1940's style recreate the selling of black market silk stockings and bloomers on a 1938 tube train in Aldwych Underground station in London, Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010. As part of a series of commemorative events taking place in London to mark the 70th anniversary of the Blitz and the Battle of Britain, visitors are being allowed to descend into the disused Aldwych Underground station, public tickets have sold out already. The station has been transformed to recreate the feel of what it was like during the 1940s when thousands of people took refuge in the Underground from the bombs that rained on the capital. AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth

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Actors dressed in 1940's style recreate the selling of black market silk stockings and bloomers on a 1938 tube train in Aldwych Underground station in London, Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010. As part of a series of commemorative events taking place in London to mark the 70th anniversary of the Blitz and the Battle of Britain, visitors are being allowed to descend into the disused Aldwych Underground station, public tickets have sold out already. The station has been transformed to recreate the feel of what it was like during the 1940s when thousands of people took refuge in the Underground from the bombs that rained on the capital.

AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth

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[si8bqm]

12:52 AM on 09/27/2010

sorry--resolving

[si8bqm]

12:51 AM on 09/27/2010

Why don't you do something about reolving that terrible problem of Mornington Crescent station. I never seem to be able to go any farther.

[Vinlander]

03:40 PM on 09/23/2010

Aldwych station (by the BBC World Service in Bush House, and the London School of Ecnomics) was NOT closed until 1994. It operated at peak times, weekdays only.