Liverpool’s Lost Heritage

Liverpool’s “Royal Iris” on the Thames

MV Royal Iris (IMO 5301332), arguably Liverpool’s most famous and best loved River Mersey ferry. She was a diesel electric vessel with a passenger capacity of close to 2,300 people, launched in December 1950. In June 1977, the Royal Iris…
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Aerial view of the Pillar of Hercules and the Wapping Cutting

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…
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Wapping Tunnel Vent, from above

Aerial view of the Wapping Tunnel vent, in Crown Street park, where the original Crown Street Station was located. This is the first of a series of ventilation shafts, built throughout the length of the tunnel. The grass bank in…
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360° VR – Williamson’s Tunnels

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…
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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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Waterloo & Victoria Tunnels

Victoria Tunnel | Byrum Street Cutting | Waterloo Tunnel | Riverside Station | Maps Alongside Edge Hill Station is the former Waterloo Branch line. The line ran through the “Victoria Tunnel” (1mile 947yd) with it’s Grade II Listed portal, the…
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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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Dingle Overhead Railway Tunnel

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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Wapping Cutting, Wapping Tunnel & the 1829 Crown Street Tunnel, Edge Hill, Liverpool

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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