Williamson tunnels - liverpool 12/04/10 report

[Tankman]

Back in April, myself and Kingrat, found ourselves up in Liverpool on an SB tour of the Williamson Tunnels Built for no apparent reason at all by some philanthropist! If you like tunnels you will love this place
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 As usual with an SB tour we got to go to the parts the public don't see
For a full story of the tunnels see here:
http://www.williamsontunnels.com/intro.htm



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



A tunnel built over a tunnel The brickwork was done very professionally Most of the people who dug these tunnels went on to become expert tunnellers for the expanding railways.



Artifacts recovered during the excavation of the tunnels. They rest on a lower tunnel roof!





A lone dummy miner



Access is very restricted by height and one had to crawl in places



Plant roots from the gardens above try in vain to search for water in this underground labyrinth



Another discovered tunnel that leads off somewhere The strange thing about most of the tunnels is that they were built to the size of a railway tunnel? even more bizarre

[Mickle]

Great Pics really like No 2) Tunnel on a Tunnel, 7) Roots searching for water.

I really wanna see these tunnels for myself, going to have to get my butt down the road to Liverpool to go on this trip.
How many times a week does it go, & how much is it ??

[rooster]

Great Pics really like No 2) Tunnel on a Tunnel, 7) Roots searching for water.

I really wanna see these tunnels for myself, going to have to get my butt down the road to Liverpool to go on this trip.
How many times a week does it go, & how much is it ??

Thursday Open to all. 10:00am to 5:00pm*
Friday Open to all. 10:00am to 5:00pm*
Saturday Open to all. 10:00am to 5:00pm*
Sunday Open to all. 10:00am to 5:00pm*

Prices: adults £4.00
Children over 5 y.o. £2.50
Family ticket £12.00
Concessions £3.50

Bookings: Telephone: (0151) 709 6868

[nickweb]

I was actually looking at the mersy tunnel tours yesterday and looked at the williamson tunnels too. I think an SB tour is a special one not normally open to the public

I wouldnt mind going for a gander too, maybe we could do a group visit sometime?