A network of Top Secret subterranean Tunnels, passages and chambers, beneath Wirral’s New Brighton Palace amusement arcade, have quite an interesting historic story to tell… The New Brighton Palace Tunnels, said to date back over 200 years and thought to…
‘Otterspool House’, the once grand home of “John Moss” stood in what is now Otterspool park, South Liverpool. When the Liverpool & Manchester Railway was proposed in the 1820s, John Moss took great interest in the proposed new passenger Railway,…
An organised trip for members of FoWT, to the historic Drakelow Tunnels, the former Top Secret subterranean complex near Kidderminster. The Drakelow complex was built in 1941/1942 as a Shadow Factory for the Rover car Company. Rover manufactured engines and…
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…
Whilst studying photography, I was given an assignment to photograph the interior of a chapel within a convent in Mossley Hill, Liverpool. For this shoot, I used a 5×4 inch monorail camera, which was simply wonderful to use given that…
The Standedge Tunnel is the longest and deepest canal tunnel in Britain, at 5,189m long, 194m below ground at its deepest point and 196m above sea level. The canal Tunnel took 17 years to construct, before finally opening in 1811.…
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…
Wine-Bins | Sandstone Arch & Gash | Banqueting Hall | New Chamber Along Side The Banqueting Hall | Paddington Williamson’s Tunnels I become fascinated with 360°, Virtual Reality Equirectangular Images. So started to dabble with the process of creating these…
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…
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