Lost Street

[PhilipG]

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.

I'll post a couple of maps, later.
Not knowing exactly what these 'kerbstones' are, or look like, I'd hazard a guess at some sort of drainage system.
I agree with Chris, that Williamson's tunnels have fuelled a lot of rumours, and I know that there will be other tunnels.
But I can't understand why there should be underground streets.
I still don't accept the concept of underground streets (anywhere), especially in a city as young (and consisting of solid rock) as Liverpool.
Remember, Renshaw Street was fields until the 1790s.

Cellars also went under the roadway.
Part of a building in Berry Street was demolished recently (it was built 1790s), and you could (perhaps still can) see a doorway leading under the street.
I could romanticise and say it's a tunnel leading to St Luke's, but I don't think so.