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London seems to have a lots of abandoned spaces, including schools, graveyards and Underground stations.

It's a shame to leave such valuable space untouched, especially as Londoners love nothing more than refurbished ex-warehouse type spaces - the more hipster the better.

So the perfect use for an abandoned substation ? A nightclub, obviously.

Funnily enough, Embankment has a huge, empty substation attached to it, abandoned since 1957.

Named Pages Walk, it's hidden behind a blast door in the station and it's so large it’s been proposed as a possible nightclub location.

Have you ever been to Heaven (the club in Charing Cross, not in the sky)?

That's literally a club in the arches below Charing Cross railway station, and was previously a large wine-cellar for a hotel, so we know the concept works.

While nothing has happened yet, way back in 1998 a study was commissioned to see how feasible it would be to convert the substation into a nightclub - sadly, nothing has happened yet.

So, why is it there?

It's from more than 100 years ago, when it acted as the interchange between the Bakerloo and District lines - but it was long and steeply inclined, so not popular with passengers, and escalators were installed instead.

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The walkway was retained as a cable way, which fed the Underground with traction current - but this closed in 1957 when it was replaced by a new substation located between Embankment station and Victoria Embankment Gardens.

The subway is known to staff as Pages Walk as it's entered from the far end of the northbound Bakerloo Line platform where a door opens onto a flight of steps.

At the top of the steps there is another door and beyond that a junction, Pages Walk is to the right.

Fingers crossed we'll all be partying in there soon.