The Forgotten Tunnels Beneath Camden

The Color of History
Sep 16, 2026

Beneath Camden Market, one of London's most visited destinations, lies a hidden Victorian underground: cathedral-scale engine vaults built by Robert Stephenson in 1837, a labyrinth of horse tunnels where eight hundred animals once worked without ever seeing daylight, and the subterranean empire of what was once the world's largest drinks company. Twenty-seven million visitors walk above these tunnels every year. Almost none of them know they exist. This is the story of what was built, what was lost, and what might yet be saved.