Tunnels Under Liverpool

[Broliv]

Sounds like an idea for the meetup thread

[Lydia]

Sounds like an idea for the meetup thread

well if you do, then do pop in and see me, I'm in the gallery opposite the door to the tunnels.

[Broliv]

cool

[Samp]

There are certainly a number of tunnels under Queen Buildings/Queen Avenue at the other end of Castle St - they are contemporary with the building and I have been led to believe they were built by French POW's (Napoleonic). Most of them have been bricked up now, but some are still accessible through a door in the arcade - you would have to get permission from Bruntwood (who own the building) and arrange for someone to show you around.

A family friend while working to install new drains in the basement of a building in Sweeting St, unearthed a tunnel. A light was used to investigate, but the tunnel was longer than the beam of the light could probe. The tunnel went Towards the Town Hall in one direction and disappeared into the darkness in the opposite direction. I have no more information other than this, but the story is genuine.

In another story on tunnels, I also help out occasionally with The Friends of Williamson’s Tunnels. At a recent event at the Anglican Cathedral, an elderly gent told me he had heard a story of a tunnel somewhere below Water St, which contained a number of skeletons from a long time ago. The council investigated but decided to leave well alone and closed it up.

[Lydia]

The tunnel went Towards the Town Hall in one direction and disappeared into the darkness in the opposite direction.

Yup, that's the Queen Buildings tunnels

[Cadfael]

A bit of info on the Town Hall tunnel at my website:

http://www.undergroundliverpool.co.u...use/4521648159

[Ged]

Came accross this thread by accident.
Thought you might like to know.

There is a deep well like entrance in Mossley Hill at the back Linwood House.Used to belong to the Holts of Sudley house.The tunnel shaft goes straight down and is about 6 ft in Diameter.It has thick Iron railings over it put there years ago and the last owner put rather placed an iron plate over it.The grass has grown around it quite high and it is now hard to spot.
The owner of the property (20 yrs ago) said that it was connected to garston docks !!! and was a smuggling tunnel that the Holts (shipping) family used.I dont know how true this is but it IS there.The house is being renovated after sitting empty for a number of years and it might be worthwhile someone going along and asking some questions if thats you thing.

Well I mosied on down there tonight and though the wall is well small enough to get over, there were too many eyes about with summer night joggers and cars galore - no Man Utd fans in Liverpool of course. I'll get down there again when the developers are in.






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[Ged]

A bit of info on the Town Hall tunnel at my website:

http://www.undergroundliverpool.co.u...use/4521648159

These are on Frank Carlyle's 'Liverpool unravelled' dvd too.

[Gnomie]

Did anyone ever find out about the Tunnels under St Anne's Church in Edge lane. I cant think of the road? St Anne's school once stood opposite it? next to Taskers.

Well in the 80`s we where rewiring the place, and i had to go down below the church. Underneath is a big area with old pews stacked up. on the back wall is an archway and through it are passage ways. we walked along them and there are graves in the wall. from what i could gather( could be wrong) it went under the old site of St Annes School and over towards where the Kwik save was. Like a fool i told Slemen about it a couple of years ago, never got a reply, so expect a Slemen exclusive on how he discovered the long lost tunnels of St Annes

Very Spooky down there.

[Cadfael]

Did anyone ever find out about the Tunnels under St Anne's Church in Edge lane. I cant think of the road? St Anne's school once stood opposite it? next to Taskers.

Well in the 80`s we where rewiring the place, and i had to go down below the church. Underneath is a big area with old pews stacked up. on the back wall is an archway and through it are passage ways. we walked along them and there are graves in the wall. from what i could gather( could be wrong) it went under the old site of St Annes School and over towards where the Kwik save was. Like a fool i told Slemen about it a couple of years ago, never got a reply, so expect a Slemen exclusive on how he discovered the long lost tunnels of St Annes

Very Spooky down there.

Lad, I've written off to the PCC with the 'Williamsons Tunnels' interest on behalf of FOWT so if/when I get a reply, I'll tag you along!

[Gnomie]

Lad, I've written off to the PCC with the 'Williamsons Tunnels' interest on behalf of FOWT so if/when I get a reply, I'll tag you along!

COOOOL

[christy]

Not sure if this is the right place but does anyone know anything about the Nuclear bunker under either Victoria park? or Mersey park over the water. Mentioned on Tony Snells program this morning by people from the area as somewhere that you cant visit or walk through that you would love to?
Any info? Anyone been down there?

[Waterways]

There are tunnels between the Post Office at Copperas Hill and Line St Station.

At the US Burtonwood Airbase, there were large underground caverns - presumably for bomb storage. They were sealed and the buildings above demolished.

[t-malone@sky.com]

There are tunnels between the Post Office at Copperas Hill and Line St Station.

At the US Burtonwood Airbase, there were large underground caverns - presumably for bomb storage. They were sealed and the buildings above demolished.

Is that why there was subsidance on the M62 years ago

[Waterways]

Is that why there was subsidance on the M62 years ago

Could be. I think that was because of mining.