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Inside Transport for London's enormous lost property office

The newly opened West Ham warehouse contains contains 62,000 items.

4,400 wallets, 3,500 bags, hundreds of umbrella's, dentures, shoes and more. More than 6,000 items are handed in to the Transport for London lost property office every single week.

Recent figures show the number of lost property items has increased by 6% in the last year while the number of items being reclaimed has decreased.

So what's inside this enormous West Ham warehouse? And what happens to the items if they go unclaimed?

成人快手 Radio London's Eddie Nestor and Freddie Tennyson have been finding out.

(Image credit: Transport for London)

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