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Shunt Vaults - Bars and Pubs in Bankside, United Kingdom
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20 Stainer Street
Bankside
London, SE1 9RL
Nearest Transport: London Bridge
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Shunt Vaults is a members' bar, deep in the tunnels under London Bridge Station. The entrance is a little door on Joiner... more
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  • 5
    Shunt Vaults
    20 Stainer Street London SE1 9RL uk
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    gregwo
    3rd September 2008
    Amazing place
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    The Shunt Vaults have an atmosphere that can't be matched-- deep in the tunnels of London Bridge Shunt is making amazingly craetive work in the context of a members bar. It's a fantastic evening where you can enjoy some drinks and check out whatever is on offer that week to see-- bands performance art, theatre or a range of other things. The place has a great buzz about it and there's nothing that I know of like it around. The work they create there is so interesting and diverse, you'll always be in for something new every time you go!

    Most definitely worth checking out!
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  • 5
    Shunt Vaults
    20 Stainer Street London SE1 9RL uk
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    girlswear
    18th August 2008
    No place like Shunt
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    This is one of my favourite places in London. The Shunt Vaults situated beneath the London Bridge, you can still feel the dampness and musty air of this Victorian vault.

    No matter how often you visit, it's a different experience on it's own, mainly because each week is curated by a different artist including art, performance art, dance, live band and DJs. Permanent area includes a small pinball arcade and pool. You can go into different rooms with different things happening, or find that secret vault with your friends. Shunt is a MUST experience if you've never been, and you'll be addicted.
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  • 5
    Shunt Vaults
    20 Stainer Street London SE1 9RL uk
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    chrisp
    18th August 2008
    Going underground
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    An extraordinary place, like stepping into a Jack-the-Ripper film set, only with alcohol and burlesque dancers. Set in a good acre of sooty disused railway arches and long-forgotten brick vaults underneath London Bridge station, Shunt is a completely unique experience and well worth the effort finding it (it's almost invisible from the outside). Drinks may be nothing special, and they didn't even serve food as far as I could tell, but you can have hours of fun just wandering through the grimy urban spaces, hiding in the shadows or dancing in the spotlights. There's nowhere else like it.
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  • 5
    Shunt Vaults
    20 Stainer Street London SE1 9RL uk
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    kellytron
    24th July 2008
    Jaw dropping excellant
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    This place just amazed me. I couldn't think of a more perfect venue. Massive space (with hidden nooks and crannies so pick how loud/busy an area you want to be in), performance, live music, art, pinball machines, cheap booze and even a truck with chairs on the tray to sit in. I actually passed about 30minutes pretending to drive this truck and honking the pretend horn - but this isn't compulsory although it does speak volumes about how much of the aforementioned cheap booze I may have consumed.

    It's the sort of place you could take a jaded Hoxton-ite and actually get an impressed look out of them.
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  • 5
    Shunt Vaults
    20 Stainer Street London SE1 9RL uk
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    rogoff
    14th June 2008
    My new favourite bar in London
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    I first went when there was a show called Tropicana here. We went through a little door in the wall of the tube station only to find ourselves in what looked like a London Transport staff room complete with Tube staff reading The Sun. From then on, the evening just got stranger and stranger as we were led into the vaults.

    Anyway, that was the show and now there's the bar. I guess it's run by the same team who put on Tropicana because it's got the same quirky feel to it with quite a lot of the theatre too.

    If you're looking for something fun and different then you won't find much better than this. Great space, great place.
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  • 5
    Shunt Vaults
    20 Stainer Street London SE1 9RL uk
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    lottiebooth Business Member
    4th June 2008
    Shunt Hosts the Dickens christmas party
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    I went here to the Shunt Lounge for "A Dickens Christmas" which was our office christmas party. Someone had shown me pictures before i went but nothing prepared me for how amazing those vaults are.

    There are some pictures of the christmas party at http://www.dickenschristmasparty.co.uk
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  • 5
    Shunt Vaults
    20 Stainer Street London SE1 9RL uk
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    BView
    24th April 2008
    unique
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    this is probably the best venue I have ever been to. That may sound like a big shout but believe me this is almost entirely unique. It is the antithesis of a poncey cocktail bar in soho. The decor is completely minimal (in fact its pretty much non-existent). This underground venue still has original brick work and is much as it was before. There are random pieces of artwork/furniture dotted all over the place (an old grand piano, pinball machines and weird pieces of "modern art). It sells cans of Red stripe at a huge mark-up but hey, what the hell, its worth it!
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  • 5
    Shunt Vaults
    20 Stainer Street London SE1 9RL uk
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    gilka
    16th July 2007
    shunt
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    What a great place! Shunt is kind of a special space.
    first time I heard about it was from a friend who saw there an interactive theatre play where the audience were taking part and being guided to different rooms. The audience didn't know who is an actor and who is just a viewer... very cool! I saw there an experimental music event in which people were playing on some very weird tools including throwing a bunch of gems to make noise... Inside Shunt you can walk around and try different spaces until you feel you got the right one! It is tricky to find it- kind of inside London bridge tube without any big sign outside... try it out if you are brave enough!
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  • 4
    Shunt Vaults
    20 Stainer Street London SE1 9RL uk
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    LondonistHazel
    17th June 2007
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    This place is great for performance art and the more bizarre end of cabaret. Not so great for wine and beer - drinking is incidental to the spooky surroundings and the avant-garde events so the supermarket wine and room temperature beers are just about bearable.
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  • 4
    Shunt Vaults
    20 Stainer Street London SE1 9RL uk
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    elaborations
    29th May 2007
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    If you have been following the Primeval episodes 2 this place will creep you out!! So I was on my guard for that Mammoth spider, as I was going deeper and deeper attracted by a faint light, and there I was with others like me attracted to this light, waiting in turn to be eaten by this mammoth spider. But it turns out to be a very funny stand-up comedian with a fat smile, amusing each one of us.

    The overall experience was enjoyable and I will go back to Surprise and shock my guests.
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