| 20 November 2011, 11:06 am |
In the Edge Hill district of Liverpool are known to be around 4000m of tunnels existing under the city. Some excavated, others in the process of being excavated. There are tours available around the two completely excavated tunnels including the double tunnel which last around 45 minutes in total.
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| 4 September 2011, 8:23 pm |
At around 60m long, this is not the most interesting culvert in that it is constructed solely of concrete and poorly shuttered concrete at that. However the composition of the photo came out well so it therefore gets its own blog post.
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| 4 September 2011, 8:13 pm |
This weekend was the Derbyshire Caving Club open weekend at Wood Mine. An interesting tour of an old Copper Ore mine, not the best lighting for photography, but worth a visit.
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| 17 July 2011, 5:25 pm |
The Park Tunnel (actually two small tunnels) was constructed to form an entrance into the “Park Estate” but it seems the route was considered too steep at the time and other entrances into the estate proved more popular. Today, the Derby Road end of one tunnel is blocked by a modern building although it is possible to access the car park under the building from the tunnel. The other part of the tunnel is still a through route, utilising Tunnel Road in the estate and also a set of narrow steps climbing up in the section between the two tunnels.
A little history of the tunnel can be found on the Nottingham University website.
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| 29 March 2011, 9:31 pm |
Alongside the River Goyt to the east of Stockport are a system of tunnels which were constructed between 1743 and 1818 to carry water to power Park Mills, owned by the Marsland Family. These tunnels extended around 700m in length and became known as the Double Ancient Corn Tunnels. Finally used for the supply of cooling water to the Stockport Power Station on Millgate until it closed during the 1980s, today the tunnels exist in a completely flooded state at a depth around 38 feet below the carriageway. Interconnected to the two main water tunnels were a myriad of smaller tunnels, predominantly constructed in the early 1820′s, the 60m long Outcrop Tunnel being just one of them.
Today the Outcrop Tunnel remains relatively in tact due to its inaccessible location, however the western entrance is now completely silted up and blocked.
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