Edinburgh Underground Vaults Guided Tour

When the South Bridge was built in the 1780s, the arches beneath it were bricked into rooms for workshops, stores and taverns. As damp crept in, the businesses left and the city’s poorest moved in, until the vaults were sealed and forgotten for more than a century.

With a live guide and a lantern-lit route you walk through these chambers and hear what life was like in the Old Town’s underworld: crowded streets above, crime, cholera and the stories of ghosts that grew up around the vaults afterwards.