Editing London deep-level shelters (section)

== Post-war use ==
[[File:Stockwell Deep Level Shelter Entrance - Diliff.jpg|right|thumb|One of the entrances to the Stockwell shelter now decorated as a war memorial]]

After the war, the Goodge Street shelter continued to be used by the army until a fire on the night of 21 May 1956, after which the government decided the shelters were not suitable for use by large numbers of the public or military.<ref>{{Cite Hansard|house=House of Lords |title=UNDERGROUND WORKS (LONDON) BILL |url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1956/jul/05/underground-works-london-bill|date=5 July 1956|volume=198|column_start=541 |column_end=545}}</ref>
The Chancery Lane shelter was converted into [[Kingsway telephone exchange]].<ref>
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[[File:Clapham South deeplevelshelter.jpg|thumb|One of the entrances to Clapham South in 2009. It has since been incorporated into a new residential development.]]
In 1948 the Clapham South shelter was used to house 200 of the first immigrants from the [[West Indies]] who had arrived on the [[HMT Empire Windrush|HMT ''Empire Windrush'']] for four weeks until they found their own accommodation. In 1951, it became the Festival Hotel providing cheap stay for visitors to the [[Festival of Britain]], but was closed after the aforementioned fire in the Goodge Street shelter. The shelter was used for archival storage for some years, but is now a [[Listed building|Grade II listed building]] with pre-booked tours arranged by the [[London Transport Museum]] via its "Hidden London" programme.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Clapham South: Subterranean Shelter |url=https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/whats-on/hidden-london/clapham-south |access-date=2023-02-15 |website=London Transport Museum |language=en}}</ref>

All the shelters, with the exception of Chancery Lane, were sold by the government to [[Transport for London]] in 1998.
The Clapham Common shelter was leased in 2014 by the Zero Carbon Food company, who use the shelter as a hydroponic farm.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://zerocarbonfarms.co.uk/clapham-farm/|date=n.d.|title=The world's first subterranean urban farm|website=Zero Carbon Farms}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wired.co.uk/article/underground-farm-zero-carbon-food|title=Vast underground bomb shelter reappropriated by urban farmers|website=Wired.co.uk|date=11 February 2014|author=Olivia Solon}}</ref>