William Lyttle, digger of a network of tunnels under his house, monikered the Mole Man of Hackney and recently found dead in the temporary accommodation he was forcibly relocated to by a structurally concerned council, remained elusive when questioned about his troglodytic behaviour. Often cloaking his reasoning in humour, he offered, amongst others, the following explanations for the 100 cubic meters of earth he displaced while tunnelling 20m in every direction from his house:
To dig towards the local bank and rob it (only to find that when he arrived it had become a wine bar).
To dig a wine cellar, which then doubled in size and then doubled again.
To extend his basement to incorporate a leisure centre with sauna.
Mole man
William Lyttle, digger of a network of tunnels under his house, monikered the Mole Man of Hackney and recently found dead in the temporary accommodation he was forcibly relocated to by a structurally concerned council, remained elusive when questioned about his troglodytic behaviour. Often cloaking his reasoning in humour, he offered, amongst others, the following explanations for the 100 cubic meters of earth he displaced while tunnelling 20m in every direction from his house: