Liverpool

Landscape

This set of mixed landscapes, have been taken over many years, at many varied locations, in my home city of Liverpool and the wider UK. Also at locations beyond our shores, in Ireland and the USA, specifically the phenomenal Grand…
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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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Liverpool Loop Line

I transferred from Warrington Arpley to Birkenhead Central depot on the Merseyrail network, for promotion to Train Driver in early 1988. Whilst at Merseyrail, doing my British Rail MP12 driver training course, I enjoyed the daily adventure of driving trains…
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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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Red Star Tunnel, Liverpool Lime Street

The Red Star express parcel delivery service was launched by British Rail in April 1963. Red Star utilised the many Inter City, passenger train services that served the major cities throughout the UK. However in May 2001, Red Star ceased…
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Walton CLC Railway Tunnels

A fascinating look at the long abandoned Cheshire Lines Railway Tunnels between the former Walton-on-the-Hill station and Kirkdale. The (CLC) Cheshire Lines Committee, commenced the building of Walton-on-the-Hill tunnels in September 1875. Built by contractors, Messrs Kirk and Parry, architectural…
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