Results 1 to 14 of 14

Thread: Underneath Bold Street

  1. #1
    Member MugsMoney's Avatar
    Join Date
    Nov 2008
    Location
    Liverpool
    Posts
    9

    Default Underneath Bold Street

    Bit of a weird one for you!

    Sometime last year, maybe the year before, I was out shopping with the Missus.

    We were on Bold Street, on the right as you look up to St Lukes. I'm guessing she was either in the Halifax, or a shop called 'The Works'.

    So, that probably places me outside one of those. On the pavement, there are a couple of rows of 'glass tiles???', don't know if thats the right word. Just look like opaque glass cobbles.

    Anyways, one of these cobbles is missing, and I looks down at it. Amazingly, you could see straight through to what I can only describe as another street. It was like the whole roadway of Bold St was suspended 20-25 foot in the air above his street. It had a proper tarmacced road, and it looked like empty cardboard boxes waiting for collections.

    It made it appear like the ground floors of buildings, were really the 2nd floors.

    I hadn't been drinking, and I haven't smoked the Waccy Baccy for a good few years now.

    I saw what I saw.

    Googling it throws up nothing, So.....

    Can anybody shed any light on this for me?

    Cheers, Mugsy.

  2. #2

    Default

    That'll be the underground depositry for the bank.

  3. #3

    Default

    Lots of amazing underground history in Liverpool inc the well in Jeffs, Bold Street.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool/local...covering.shtml

  4. #4
    Liverpool New Yorker! Ronijayne's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2008
    Location
    Manhattan
    Posts
    541

    Default

    I remember when they were pulling down the local railway and rats were popping up on Bold Street. There was a vent in our stockroom which was below ground and a dead rat had fallen through and was lying on a table!! It was there for days and I had to go in that room ugh. I bet there are underground tunnel all over. Look at those amazing pics that came up on here. That amazing tunnel with old cars and all kinds of things.

    Everyone was saying then that the rats lived in all the underground tunnels. I guess from the train station.

    Pity you did not have a camera or phone camera handy. Very interesting
    Earth is the insane asylum for the universe.

  5. #5
    georgie t
    Guest georgie t's Avatar

    Default

    sounds very interesting cheers

  6. #6
    Senior Member wsteve55's Avatar
    Join Date
    Feb 2007
    Location
    Crosby
    Posts
    2,199

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by georgie t View Post
    sounds very interesting cheers
    Heading for Bold st. then,Georgie??

  7. #7

  8. #8
    Explorer Kevsy's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2011
    Location
    Liverpool
    Posts
    43

    Default

    Sounds interesting

  9. #9
    Member MugsMoney's Avatar
    Join Date
    Nov 2008
    Location
    Liverpool
    Posts
    9

    Default

    Right, I've just been back for a little nosey about. The rows of glass bricks are actually outside what is now the Argos, directly opposite the Lyceum. There is also a very small run of these bricks further up Bold St outside 'FootAsylum'. I was pressing & prodding these bricks with my foot to see if there was any give. One brick, about 8-10 bricks up Bold St from the Argos doorway, had quite a bit of give in it, and the concrete around it was loose too. I couldn't hack away at it, as there was a corpy guy fixing somat nearby.

    I think it would need a trowel or something to loosen it

  10. #10
    Re-member Ged's Avatar
    Join Date
    Dec 2006
    Location
    Here, there & everywhere.
    Posts
    7,197

    Default

    Urban vandal

    Maybe go in the shop with a clipboard and nametag on asking to see their cellar
    www.inacityliving.piczo.com/

    Updated weekly with old and new pics.

  11. #11
    Came fourth...now what? Oudeis's Avatar
    Join Date
    Oct 2009
    Location
    North London
    Posts
    908
    Blog Entries
    4

    Default

    Pavement Lights, as they are known...

    http://www.newageglass.co.uk/glass-b...ent-lights.php

    ...may have come into use with the widening of roadways. Where buildings had had light wells at one time. So rather than lose the useful space when they lost their entrance ways and to have natural light the pavements accommodated the duel purpose of walk way and storage space. This is not to say that glory-holes are the only things beneath our feet.

  12. #12
    Re-member Ged's Avatar
    Join Date
    Dec 2006
    Location
    Here, there & everywhere.
    Posts
    7,197

    Default

    Given it is at the bottom end of Bold St. Could this subterranean roadway be something to do with the old and nearby Central station?
    www.inacityliving.piczo.com/

    Updated weekly with old and new pics.

  13. #13
    Came fourth...now what? Oudeis's Avatar
    Join Date
    Oct 2009
    Location
    North London
    Posts
    908
    Blog Entries
    4

    Default

    P.S.
    Walking around city centres you will see lines of brass or studs in the pavement I fancy these too are to mark 'solid' ground out from voids. i.e. spaces still in use by the building owner.

  14. #14
    Senior Member Lizzie1's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2011
    Location
    Liverpool
    Age
    71
    Posts
    291

    Default

    Fascinating, Liverpool has loads of tunnels etc, I seem to remember a local historian talking about underground streets in the area of Sweeting St too.


Similar Threads

  1. Bold Street, Then and Now
    By Bob Edwards in forum Bob Edwards' Liverpool Picture Book
    Replies: 0
    Last Post: 07-07-2012, 12:10 PM
  2. Shops underneath Church street
    By SIMON HARRISON in forum Liverpool Folklore and Oddities
    Replies: 70
    Last Post: 09-15-2007, 02:01 PM
  3. Bold Street
    By Lyates in forum Liverpool City Center Architecture
    Replies: 2
    Last Post: 06-27-2007, 11:19 AM

Tags for this Thread

Bookmarks

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •