Originally Posted by
PhilipG
I didn't know they went that far, but doesn't 40 feet still indicate an air-raid shelter?
It was also said that it was the cellars of the house called Park Nook which were used as air-raid shelters.
Park Nook was the only building ever on the site, which is part of the original Toxteth Park.
They may well have been used for air raid shelters at some point - although access to them was via crawling on your stomach to get in to them a few years ago.
But when FOWT visited them and did some background work, it was realised that they were built along with the house for James Martineau for his children to play in. There were various blocked off archways underground which indicated a much larger area rather than just the one tunnel system which was actually quite narrow. I only wish I had taken more pictures back then but while I think they may have been fairly extensive, they were nothing like the elaborate Williamson's Tunnels.
They themselves were looked at by the City Council to see if they were suitable for air raid shelters but decided against them.
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The picture below shows chaps from LCC exploring the tunnels to see if they were of use during the war:
Source - LCC
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