Beneath Renshaw Street, Liverpool

The discovery and exploration of a long lost, little known subterranean passage and tunnel under Renshaw Street, Liverpool City Centre. Located beneath what was once a former tyre fitting garage, next door to the Dispensary Pub.

This small but interesting underground find, consisted of a square chamber, accessed via a manhole in the floor of the former garage. In the upper most corner of the chamber, a bricked up tunnel entrance can clearly be seen. The Tunnel, l heads up the hill beneath the buildings on Leece Street and Hardman Street, in the direction of the Fly in the Loaf and possibly beyond towards the Philharmonic pub. In the opposite corner of the chamber is a passage leading off under Renshaw Street in the direction of Lime Street. Within this passage, you can clearly see the bricked up windows and doors of forgotten structures, leading further beneath Renshaw street.

Photographs within a small but interesting structure, beneath Renshaw Street, Liverpool. The bricked in Tunnel continues up the hill under Leece St and Hardman Street towards the Fly in the Loaf and Philharmonic pub

The original building, that once stood on Baltimore Street, just opposite the side entrance of the ‘Fly in the Loaf’ pub was demolished around 2008. This revealed what looks like the continuation of the sealed up tunnel entrance at the botton of the hill under Renshaw Street.

Where did this tunnel lead and what was its purpose? Who knows…

Photographs taken after the demolition of the building that once occupied the corner of Baltimore Street. It shows the below ground level, bricked up arch of a Tunnel behind the wooden steps. This will most probably be the same Tunnel as that leading off the chamber at the bottom of the hill beneath Renshaw Street.

Whilst I don’t know for sure, I suspect this chamber will no longer be accessible, following it’s probable infilling due to the development that took place on the site above. The photographs were originally taken in the early 2000’s, on 35mm negatives and scanned and digitised.

Media Coverage

Tunnel with bricked up windows and doors under Liverpool city centre street remains a mystery – Liverpool Echo

Incredible images of mysterious subterranean world below Renshaw Street – Liverpool Echo