Category: History
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Olwyn Goch and the Milwr Tunnel
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…
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360° Virtual Reality Equirectangular Panoramas – Williamson’s Tunnels – Part 2
Gallery No.2 Return to 360° Williamson’s Tunnels, Gallery No.1 Joseph Williamson’s house site, Mason Street continued New Chamber, along side the Banqueting Hall This view is taken from the bottom of the trench, and within the small Rock Cut Tunnel…
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360° Virtual Reality Equirectangular Panoramas – Williamson’s Tunnels
Gallery No.1 Continue to 360° Williamson’s Tunnels, Gallery No.2 I become fascinated with 360°, Virtual Reality Equirectangular Images. So started to dabble with the process of creating 360° VR Panoramas myself. 360° images are created using multiple Hi-Res images from…
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Littlewoods, Edge Lane, Air Raid Shelter
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…
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Underground Worlds
One of my favourite subject’s has to be, photographing within hidden underground Worlds. With the challenge of Lighting the intense darkness within the often large voids of natural caves or man-made tunnels and mines. Here is a small selection of…
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Waterloo & Victoria Tunnels
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…
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ABC Cinema, Lime Street
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…
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Liverpool Overhead Railway Tunnel, Dingle
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),…
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Great Howard Street Bridge & Grand Arch
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…
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Red Star Tunnel, Liverpool Lime Street
The Red Star express parcel delivery service was launched by British Rail in April 1963. Red Star made use of the many Inter City, passenger services, serving the major cities throughout the UK. Utilising these fast and frequent passenger trains…
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