Old Photos Of Where You Live
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…..Exchange Flags;
Network Rail has uncovered the original 1849 rope winding vault for the Victoria Tunnel at Edge Hill. As with the Wapping and Lime Street tunnels, the Victoria used a steam-powered rope haulage system to pull rolling stock up from the North docks.
[1] The 1851 plan of the Edge Hill complex shows the winding vault highlighted in yellow and the station buildings in blue.
[2] The view of the vault from Platform 1
[3] A drawing of the engines and wheel used on Platform 2
[4] The portal for the Victoria Tunnel
[1] The 1851 plan of the Edge Hill complex shows the winding vault highlighted in yellow and the station buildings in blue.
[2] The view of the vault from Platform 1
[3] A drawing of the engines and wheel used on Platform 2
[4] The portal for the Victoria Tunnel
….Abercromby Square. Every spring medical students from Liverpool University lay flowers at the site;
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….secret tunnel from Olympia Pub to Olympia Theatre on W Derby Rd, apparently used by performers. Harry Houdini and The Beatles performed at the theatre and might have used the tunnel;
….Molyneux Ironmonger & W Derby Village 1920;
….1959, another Liverpool first; road laying Brownlow Hill included electric heating elements to stop ice and snow, bit like under soil heating;
….i never knew Old Hall St was ‘lowered’;
…iconic Baltic Fleet with Whapping Brewery in its basement;
….St James Cemetery opened 1829, built on the site of a former stone quarry between Upper Parliament St and Duke St;
