Originally Posted by christy
Hi Christy. I spent some time in the basement at the olympia many years ago
There was a lift that brought up the animals but it did not work and the floor above it had been covered. As you probably know it was at one time a circus.
However i found no secret passage,s and there where no cages,but there is a huge elephant pit where they kept the elephants. I was also a regular at the Olympia pub throughout the 60s and i never heared anything about the passage.
There's a tunnel which connects the County Sessions House and Museum in William Brown Street. I've no idea how long it's been there or why it's between these two buildings. Part of the tunnel contains cells, which are now used for storage.
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Everton tunnel
Came across this having heard of it before. Anyone know if it ever happened or if so where it is and if not why not?
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The link you posted does not work... from what I am guessing I can think of two things;
a) the 'brewery tunnel' belonging to a Brew House in Everton which had a tunnel for the barrels of beer to roll down a slope from the Brewery to the yard for transportation.
b) the proposed link to the city centre that would have come out at Everton. (I'm remembering this as I haven't got any books at hand) I think it was meant to come out somewhere near the top of Sleepers Hill
. It was meant to link up with the A580 (East Lancs Road) and be a direct access from Manchester to the Liverpool Docks and Mersey Tunnels, going under the city and down towards the Mersey.
As the project was proposed during the 1920s-1930's I believe that World War II got in the way, costs escallated and the plans were shelved.
As I said, I am remembering this so my facts might not be accurate.
with regards to the tunnell at reynolds park, this tunnell does exsist and is accessible, if your not afraid of climbin a wall then going down the quarry bank.
ill try and get to it at the weekend and get some pictures for you.
Id love to find the rest of the tunnells, Any chance of getting a list of confirmed tunnells?
Aye, the tunnel at Reynolds Park is cut in the sandstone bedrock and goes up in like a spiral staircase fashion. I need to go again - this time with a camera!
Everton Tunnels
Reference Everton tunnels, my mother worked in a Sayers Confectioners shop in Brunswick Road, which is near to Low Hill, during the thirties and forties. to get to the toilet facilities, you had to go to the basement of the shop, and access a tunnel that went under the road. There were rooms in this passageway, which contained various junk. Emerging the tunnel on the other side of the road, there was the toilet, and another passageway that led off into the darkeness. It was never explored by her. I have heard of tunnels being in the Everton area, before allegedly from the Civil War period, and have often wondered if the one under Brusnwick Road was one of them. However, I heard Frank Carlyle on Radio Merseyside one day saying that a lot of what we presume to be tunnels were in fact "Cold Rooms" constructed at the same time as the property above, to keep produce fresh, and did not necessarily lead anywhere. With the tunnels in Burnswick Road being under shops I wonder if this was the case.
tunnels under county rd
hi i was just wandering if anyone knows of the tunnel that runs under county rd the only thing i know is that it runs through the glebe pub ther is actually an entrance in the celler which lets you go left towards walton church or right down county rd any ifo would be appreciated thanks
This is beginning to annoy me now; when people post and say
'Anyone know about a tunnel from...'
Automatically assumes thet there is a tunnel there and that it is well known about when in 99% cases it is simply an old cellar.
My suggestion, is that instead of posting on here, go an ask the places if you can have a look then report back here. We could create a sort of list of real tunnels and urban myth tunnels.
Balls, you sound like you've already been into the tunnel (at least to the entrance), if not where did you get your description from?
glebe
yeah ive had a look it goes in the direction of walton church and the opposite way towards hale rd direction i have not explored it which is why i was asking whether anyone had heard of it and maybe could enlighten me if i knew what it was i wouldnt be on here
As you can tell, mysteries annoy me! I wasn't having at go at you Balls, I was just annoyed about all these tunnels that people speak of yet no-one seems to know where exactly they are or how to get to them.
At least this County Road tunnel has been seen, i'd love to have a look at it.
Sounds like you may have broken into the sewer there Balls!
Back in the mid-Seventies, I worked in the City Engineer's department structures section. The head of the department told me that back in the 50s he had been asked to visit the site of the new Corn Exchange then under construction in Drury Lane.
The Contractors had found a tunnel and when the engineers inspected it, they found that it extended some way and that there were actually four levels of tunnels. They were narrow and had cages, like cells, built in along one side.
Apparently, nobody knew how far these tunnels extended or what they had been used for. There was speculation that they followed the old streets of the town and that they had been used for imprisoning slaves following the abolition of the slave trade - but there was no evidence for that.
One of the engineers who had seen the tunnels told me that they had found an old oil lamp. When they went to pick it up, it collapsed into dust.
The engineer's advice to the contractors was to collapse in the top tier of tunnels and fill it in.
I wrote to Jim Moore about this some years ago and he said that he might research it for an update of Underground Liverpool.
Two other underground features that I found out about when I was working there were the concrete bridges constructed across Georges Dock. In this case they actually had the site photographs dated 1907.
The bridges carry Water Street and Brunswick Street from the Strand between the Three Graces to the Pier Head. They are massive structures and are still there (the Brunswick Street one can be seen if you go on the Mersey Tunnels tour). Photographs taken before the Cunard Building was built show the Brunswick Street bridge to be quite an ornate structure with a viaduct of four-centred arches supporting the road and a similar viaduct, at a higher level supporting the footpath. The Water Street bridge is just a box.
The engineers had been inside the Water Street box and found it to be partially flooded. When they tested the water, they found it to be identical to tap water.
Although their existence is well documented, there is some mystery in just why they were built. It would have been much cheaper just to have filled in the dock - so presumably they were part of some civic project that got shelved when the Liver and Cunard Buildings were constructed.
Now that is interesting Martin... I never knew of these bridges.
Has Jim Moore said he will do an updated version of Underground Liverpool?
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