Whilst on the Isle of Anglesea, North Wales, I came across this fascinating disused Victorian Brickworks. Located on the coast in the spectacular scenery of Porth Wen (White Bay) near Cemaes Bay. Geologists discovered that the North Anglesey coastline had…
A short video, shot with the kind permission of St Anne’s school, Edge Hill, for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Trust. The aim of which was to record and document the remains of the original ‘Pillar of Hercules’, a remnant…
I am fortunate to have visited and explored this astonishing former Limestone and Lead mine, not once but twice. Access into Olwyn Goch and Milwr Tunnel was a challenge to say the least, certainly not for the faint-hearted. The descent…
Along side the famous Littlewoods building on Edge Lane, Liverpool, hidden beneath Wavertree Botanic Park, is a secret, long lost WWII Air Raid Shelter… During WWII, Liverpool suffered greatly from bombing raids, with Liverpool being one of the most heavily…
One of my favourite subject’s has to be the challenge of underground photography. Lighting the intense darkness of our Subterranean worlds, whether natural caves or man-made tunnels and mines. Here is a small selection of images, taken in a variety…
Victoria Tunnel | Byrum Street Cutting | Waterloo Tunnel | Riverside Station | Maps Alongside Edge Hill Station, is what would have been the former Waterloo Branch line. The line ran through the “Victoria Tunnel” (1mile 947yd) with it’s Grade…
On the day of my visit into the Futurist Cinema, we were also treated to a visit into the second rather special building on Lime Street, the Grade II Listed, former ABC Cinema. The cinema opened in 1931 as the…
The Cars | Tunnel, Pre Collapse | Tunnel, Days after the Collapse | Tunnel, after Completed Repairs | Maps One of my favourite tunnels in Liverpool, has to be the only underground section of the historic Liverpool Overhead Railway (LOR),…
Once a train had passed over the Waterloo branch line, via the Victoria and Waterloo Tunnels, enroute to the former Riverside Station, trains would pass beneath the Grand Arch and Great Howard Street Bridge. A view from the Historic Edge Hill…
Wapping Cutting | Wapping Tunnel | 1829 Crown Street Tunnel | 1846 Crown Street Tunnel | Crown Street Station/Park | Wapping Crows Foot | Maps I have been lucky to have visited this astonishing place many times over the years.…
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