Wherever there are tunnels, sewers, mines, car parks and energy stations under our feet, vents will be doing vital work keeping them cool and fume-free. This book celebrates them both as intriguing individual structures, and as a way of telling the story of Britain's subterranean industrial development, from the eighteenth century to the present day. Here are one hundred of the most interesting ventilation shafts, sometimes in surprising places: masquerading as sculptures and small buildings, adorned with fine details, or displaying their purpose with confidence.
