Quote Originally Posted by Davec View Post
My dear auld Ma used to work in the Pig & Whistle many years ago and I remember her telling me that the pub's cellar used to flood out at high tide.
Mind you being that close to the river it shouldn't be a surprise, but I got the impression the flooding served a 'purpose'.
On Chapel Street that would be the old drainage tunnels. They emptied directly into the river. I am not sure if sewage was put down them as well. Which I'm sure it was.

Sewage was emptied directly into the river until the Sandon Dock sewage plant was built in the 1980s

Many houses in Birkenhead had their cellars fill on high Spring tides.