My father took me on a bus past Blackwall Tunnel - a Victorian road tunnel under the river Thames with an imposing building above the entrance. "See that" he said "that takes people all the way under the river" For a long time I thought that the windows and doors were closed and the whole building slid down under the river, like some kind of submarine ferryboat.
A childhood belief about places
others believed things like this
- I used to think that the river police were there to stop naughty people from pulling the plug out.— Linda
- I used to think the Empire State Building was called the "Ten-past-eight building".— Alex
- That there was an underground tunnel linking New York to San Francisco.— Christophe Chang
- I used to believe that the Lehigh tunnel in Pennsylvania was created by Superman.— Holz
- I used to think underground trains actually descended into the tunnel, like a rollercoaster.— Natasha
- When my daughter was 3, she saw a cat using a litter box. She thought it was building a sand castle.— Debbie the Bad Swimmer