Quote Originally Posted by PhilipG View Post
I see you always write 'road' and 'street' in inverted commas.
Other people might not notice, but I think you're not sure what they are.
They're cellars, nothing else.
Refer to my earlier post detailing the history of Renshaw Street.
Now you've got people believing that Liverpool is littered with underground streets!
I'm sorry if I left any information out of the above post. About 1ft away from the wall is a line of curb stones which you would not get if it was a simple cellar system - indicating some sort of pavement under the rubble you can see in the picture. The opposite wall was much newer which would indicate that this passageway/street/road - call it what you wish, was much wider.
My personal view is that if it was a cellar system, then it would have been a bloomin large house going off in 3 different directions, towards St Luke's, and towards the Adelphi.
I have poured over maps of this area and the layout of them does not fit in with any type of building I have seen on maps, it is set away from the road but in order for this to have been a celler system, the houses must have been about 8ft wide if Renshaw Street was there at the time.

I can only report on what I saw from first hand information, people can make up their own mind as to what is classed as a road/lane or celler system.