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
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there.
I've had the book for a few years, but never got as far as reading that part.
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