Tankman
19-06-2010, 06:00 PM
Back in April, myself and Kingrat, found ourselves up in Liverpool on an SB tour of the Williamson Tunnels:thumb Built for no apparent reason at all by some philanthropist! If you like tunnels you will love this place:lol:
The tunnels are built on top of one another and are a bit of a labyrinth, the full scale of which is still to be discovered:confused: As usual with an SB tour we got to go to the parts the public don't see:thumb
For a full story of the tunnels see here:
http://www.williamsontunnels.com/intro.htm
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii38/tankman_2008/WILLIAMSON%20TUNNELS%20LIVERPOOL/269.jpg
Most of the tunnels were backfilled over the years and are slowly being rediscovered by volunteers literally "Hand balling" buckets of infill up to the surface:ohmy
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii38/tankman_2008/WILLIAMSON%20TUNNELS%20LIVERPOOL/265.jpg
A tunnel built over a tunnel:confused: The brickwork was done very professionally:thumb Most of the people who dug these tunnels went on to become expert tunnellers for the expanding railways.
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii38/tankman_2008/WILLIAMSON%20TUNNELS%20LIVERPOOL/302.jpg
Artifacts recovered during the excavation of the tunnels. They rest on a lower tunnel roof!
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii38/tankman_2008/WILLIAMSON%20TUNNELS%20LIVERPOOL/305.jpg
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii38/tankman_2008/WILLIAMSON%20TUNNELS%20LIVERPOOL/295.jpg
A lone dummy miner:lol:
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii38/tankman_2008/WILLIAMSON%20TUNNELS%20LIVERPOOL/321.jpg
Access is very restricted by height and one had to crawl in places:)
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii38/tankman_2008/WILLIAMSON%20TUNNELS%20LIVERPOOL/342.jpg
Plant roots from the gardens above try in vain to search for water in this underground labyrinth:thumb
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii38/tankman_2008/WILLIAMSON%20TUNNELS%20LIVERPOOL/347.jpg
Another discovered tunnel that leads off somewhere:confused: The strange thing about most of the tunnels is that they were built to the size of a railway tunnel? even more bizarre:confused:
The tunnels are built on top of one another and are a bit of a labyrinth, the full scale of which is still to be discovered:confused: As usual with an SB tour we got to go to the parts the public don't see:thumb
For a full story of the tunnels see here:
http://www.williamsontunnels.com/intro.htm
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii38/tankman_2008/WILLIAMSON%20TUNNELS%20LIVERPOOL/269.jpg
Most of the tunnels were backfilled over the years and are slowly being rediscovered by volunteers literally "Hand balling" buckets of infill up to the surface:ohmy
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii38/tankman_2008/WILLIAMSON%20TUNNELS%20LIVERPOOL/265.jpg
A tunnel built over a tunnel:confused: The brickwork was done very professionally:thumb Most of the people who dug these tunnels went on to become expert tunnellers for the expanding railways.
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii38/tankman_2008/WILLIAMSON%20TUNNELS%20LIVERPOOL/302.jpg
Artifacts recovered during the excavation of the tunnels. They rest on a lower tunnel roof!
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii38/tankman_2008/WILLIAMSON%20TUNNELS%20LIVERPOOL/305.jpg
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii38/tankman_2008/WILLIAMSON%20TUNNELS%20LIVERPOOL/295.jpg
A lone dummy miner:lol:
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii38/tankman_2008/WILLIAMSON%20TUNNELS%20LIVERPOOL/321.jpg
Access is very restricted by height and one had to crawl in places:)
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii38/tankman_2008/WILLIAMSON%20TUNNELS%20LIVERPOOL/342.jpg
Plant roots from the gardens above try in vain to search for water in this underground labyrinth:thumb
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii38/tankman_2008/WILLIAMSON%20TUNNELS%20LIVERPOOL/347.jpg
Another discovered tunnel that leads off somewhere:confused: The strange thing about most of the tunnels is that they were built to the size of a railway tunnel? even more bizarre:confused: