:) Trust you to be on it!! hehe
Took this pic today...is this the same house as in your pic?
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a2/...sonsthouse.jpg
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:) Trust you to be on it!! hehe
Took this pic today...is this the same house as in your pic?
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a2/...sonsthouse.jpg
You know me :Colorz_Grey_PDT_16:
Yeah that's Williamson's House. On closer inspection you can see the bricked up doorway - the archway was used for access for the digging out of the tunnels!
oohh all good stuff.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jona76
saw some williamson guys knocking around today with hi-viz's on...
I wouldn't trust those dodgy chaps - especially the one in the centre :gossip: :)Quote:
Originally Posted by MissInformed
hehe
he looks the most dodgy of the lot!
any idea what they were up to today?
Could be anything from digging, to tours around the area to sloping off to the Oxford for a pint :PDT_Aliboronz_24:Quote:
Originally Posted by MissInformed
Wow i never knew his house survived. great pic:)Quote:
Originally Posted by MissInformed
Where about is that house?
A few pics here http://s23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...entre/?start=0
:)
hey gnomie
it's on Mason Street in Edge Hill, near the Williamson Tunnels...be careful if you're going about there with a camera though, it's a bit of a weird area!
Great little remnants of buildings and walls though...
Is that Dave Bridson on the left? He was in my class at De La Salle. We only bump into each other at beer festivals now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jona76
These are wonderful pics.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jona76
Kev posted some last night on windmills.
I know ultimately they're from the LRO, but are they on a disk, or something?
Dave Bridson runs the Williamson's Heritage Centre and is a fine beer drinker! The chap on the left however - his name is Jeff Jones, a fellow Childwall bod.Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkA
Jona - don't forget the source of the pic la :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Jona76
I thought he'd lost a bit of weight!:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Jona76
Sorry Kev :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Kev
Source - Liverpool Record Office.
Liverpool City Council recently approved Friends of Williamson's Tunnels' plans for works at the Paddington section of the tunnels. This will finally see excavation go ahead at this mysterious section of Williamson's labyrinth.
Our several sets of high quality conveyor belts have been installed, along with a full electricity supply. Next, we will re-arrange things above ground to make removal of the many tons of rubble easier.
That will involve building a new gate adjacent to the entrance hatch, as well as a new wall to separate our work area from the car park of the Student Village. Once that process is complete, we will begin excavating: firstly the tunnel which heads south from the entrance - a very tall tunnel of which we only caught a fleeting glimpse when we first re-discovered the Paddington section several years ago - and then the main tiers of this section, many parts of which are packed with rubble. It will be fascinating to finally discover what is underneath.
See a sketch of the multi-level layout of Paddington here.
http://www.williamsontunnels.com/images/paddconvey.jpg
Two of the conveyor belts ready to be installed
http://www.williamsontunnels.com/images/padd47.jpg
Rubble in the Paddington tunnels
Did you not read the copyright bit on FOWT's Website? :PDT10
Nope, couldn't find it, maybe its hidden beneath a secret tunnel within their website :PDT11
Its where I found the same copyright page and borrowed the same text :PDT10Quote:
Originally Posted by Kev
Picture of the first level - this is showing the tunnel that Charles Hand walked for over a mile through in 1926!
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Just picked these up from Facebook. Apparently they are of the preparatory work in the Triple Layer tunnel.
http://photos-a.ak.facebook.com/phot...030120_415.jpg
http://photos-f.ak.facebook.com/phot...30037_3091.jpg
http://photos-b.ak.facebook.com/phot...30041_5479.jpg
They are (c)JWS but i've spoken to one of the group moderators and they don't mind me posting a few on here.
I'm never popular with pointing out things like this, but if one of the moderators on this site gave an outside party permission to use my photos, I wouldn't be pleased.Quote:
Originally Posted by fortinian
Rant over. :hug:
Good point PhilG I hadn't considered that. I was under the impression that the photos belonged to the group moderators.
If anyone gets in contact with me about these photos i'll take them down but until then i've done all I can to make sure they are credited and used with permission.
Not sure what you're saying.Quote:
Originally Posted by fortinian
Are you saying that (for example) my photos on this site belong to this group's moderators?
Why moderators?
Kev owns this site and not even he can give permission for photos posted here to be posted somewhere else.
Of course, the original photographer can only get in touch with you if he finds out.
Edit.
I'm not getting at you, but yet again my post has been read while I'm typing it.
Don't know how that happens! LOL.
As with the previous message, I have full permission to post these pictures.
These are of the previously long lost Triple Deck tunnel (I believed Cad knows more about this than me). The tunnel is not open to the public yet but progress is being made as you can see.
http://photos-530.ll.facebook.com/ph...29956_4841.jpg
http://photos-530.ll.facebook.com/ph...29953_3064.jpg
Well done Fortinian:PDT_Piratz_26:
Keep those pics comin'.:handclap:
The Triple Decker Tunnel runs from the back of Williamson's House and is bysected by the railway cutting but continues underneath the stable yard and along to a T-junction to underneath the Heritage Centre.
A few years ago, we were able to dig down to gain access to the triple decker tunnel. Rumoured to be completely lost years ago, we found access and crawled along the top layer of this - probabably 200ft until it came to a T - junction, turned right and headed towards Smithdown Lane.
There is some more info on this tunnel at my website:
http://www.smithdownlane.com/#/thetunnels/4527719289
I was aware that the Heritage Centre was digging back from the Corner Tunnel but did not realise that they had broken back in to the Triple Decker Tunnel - I don't recognise these pictures from the 1st visit so they have done very well to get back in to it!
there was a piece on the Williamson Tunnels on The One Show tonight. :PDT_Piratz_26:
Yeah I seen that.It was good :PDT_Piratz_26:(even though fat commie Alexi Sayle was on it:PDT_Xtremez_42:)Quote:
Originally Posted by quincyg
Click HERE to watch it on BBC iplayer.Quote:
Originally Posted by quincyg
I don't know much about the Williamson Tunnels, but as a photo this is quite beautiful. :PDT_Aliboronz_11:Quote:
Originally Posted by fortinian
I was not impressed. The extent of the tunnels is vast. They didn't even state the size of them and the estimate of how much was actually dug out.Quote:
Originally Posted by quincyg
They even had carpenters shops down there - not mentioned.
There has never been a carpenters shop at any part of the Tunnel network. Where did you hear this?Quote:
Originally Posted by Waterways
Pinocchio :)
at least it was some publicity. people will often go online and look up info after seeing a piece on a programme.
I think it is on the web site. While under construction they had a carpenters shop for the timbersQuote:
Originally Posted by Cadfael
Have to say I've never heard of that one. The only carpenters relation is a carpenters shop that used to stand above a section of the tunnels but this is going back to 1986 when James Stonehouse toured the area.Quote:
Originally Posted by Waterways
Cool pics
I visited there a few years back, i was the only one on the tour, so i got the V I P treatment :PDT_Piratz_26:
I loved the way they have done the buildings in the yard, and of course the Horses.
Excellent shots! You never know what you'll turf up next down there!Quote:
Originally Posted by fortinian
Dave.
For those of you interested... I've just found out that the regular tunnels Members visits - to the areas not open to the public - are on every weekend in November and this year for the first time the Triple Decker tunnel will be in view!
http://www.williamsontunnels.com/vis..._visits_08.htm
Members only i'm afraid!
I was most disappointed to find that they were not really tunnels at all, but just vaulting over existing excavations. At least the tunnels built by George Senior in Doncaster were excavated tunnels. I believe there was something similar in Stockport?