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What do you do when the equipment used to dig out your sub-sub-basement in your lovely London property is so deep that it costs more to lift it out than to replace it? Simple — you simply bury it.<\/p>\n

It's hard to argue with the economic equation, but it still seems somehow wrong.<\/i>\ufeff<\/div>\n

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New Statesman | The bizarre secret of London\u2019s buried diggers<\/a>
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What do you do when the equipment used to dig out your sub-sub-basement in your lovely London property is so deep that it costs more to lift it out than to replace it? Simple — you simply bury it. It's hard to argue with the economic equation, but it still seems somehow wrong.\ufeff New Statesman … Continue reading “Dig? 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