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..you know the bricked up one down in
the corner: does it emerge on that screened-off patch of wasteground on Pilgrim St.? Is it a Williamson?
Also, do we have an underground disused
Victorian 'street' somewhere? I once saw a drawing of it in a book from Central Lib. Seemed to suggest it had at one point been kitted out with the usual
gaslamps and street furniture of the time...
Haven't heard of a tunnel there, apart from theQuote:
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one cut through the rock that leads to the Oratory.
All the Williamson Tunnels are in the one area.
Haven't heard of a Victorian street buried in
Liverpool, but there is definitely one in Southport.
Nevill Street, which leads to the pier, once had a subway in the centre of the road, complete with
shops. It was all filled in about 1903.
[QUOTE=PhilipG;23467]Haven't heard of a tunnel there, apart from the
one cut through the rock that leads to the Oratory.
All the Williamson Tunnels are in the one area.
Really? It's quite well known. Once
you've reached the cemetery down the path, through the short little tunnel you mention, you just double back in the direction you've just come from,into
the cemetery, and a bricked-up entrance to a tunnel forms the Northerly(?) corner of it.
I smoked my first spliff there with my first ever girlfriend in
1990!
As for the cobbled Victorian tunnel I'm talking about, it's possible I MAY have got it confused with the Wapping one. I need to do some
extra research on that one..
Is it in this
area?
http://static.flickr.com/100/289233527_7b4e28aa3d.jpg
that's
the one...
Just had a look at the
book "Underground Liverpool" by Jim Moore (Bluecoat Press, 1998).
He isn't sure about it but says this:
"It has been suggested that this was the
quarrymen's route but the author has been unable to find any reference to it. The stone may have been loaded onto carts and taken under St James Mount,
presumably into what was St James Road and is now the open area near the west door of the cathedral. Horwood's map of 1803 shows a second stone quarry to
the west on what was once Rathbone Street. Could this quarrymen's tunnel have emerged in this old quarry? Exactly where it went we cannot now be sure.
This tunnel may have become disused and bricked up when construction of the cathedral commenced."
End of quote.
So, nothing definite
there.
I've had the book for a few years, but never got as far as reading that part.
pretty sure it emerges at the back of the Crack , just
to the right (if you're facing the the pub) of the two 70's houses on Pilgrim St.
[QUOTE=PhilipG;23467]Haven't heard of a tunnel there, apart from the one cut through the rock that leads to the Oratory.
All the Williamson Tunnels are in the one area.
QUOTE]
If you look at - http://www.stjamescemetery.co.uk/tunnel.htm it gives all information on the Tunnel.
Also, I wish Williamson's Tunnels were just in the one area. When we did some research in to his buildings in Parr Street, they turned out to be what Cream are using now for their nightclub and they capped over a set of archways which were exactly the same as the one's in Edge Hill.
loving this thread.
Would be cool if there was an underground street somewhere, having slight de ja vu on this one though!!
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