Underground Photography

  • Queensway, River Mersey Tunnel

    Queensway, River Mersey Tunnel

    Main Queensway Tunnel | The Old Dock The Queensway Tunnel, was the first of two road tunnels to be built under the River Mersey, connecting Liverpool to the Wirral. The second being the newer Kingsway Tunnel, which opened in 1971.…

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  • Creep Inn, Munitions Factory & WWII Bunker

    Creep Inn, Munitions Factory & WWII Bunker

    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…

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  • Beneath Renshaw Street, Liverpool

    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…

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  • Drakelow Tunnels

    Drakelow Tunnels

    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…

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  • Standedge Canal Tunnel

    Standedge Canal Tunnel

    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.…

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  • Olwyn Goch and the Milwr Tunnel

    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° VR – Williamson’s Tunnels

    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

    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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  • Miscellaneous Underground

    Miscellaneous Underground

    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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  • Waterloo & Victoria Tunnels

    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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